I love the idea of Podman being daemonless and (potentially) rootless. Regardless of the presence of security flaws in dockerd, the Podman architecture just feels cleaner.

And the CLI compatibility is great. Until it isn't. At work we switched to Podman for a small deployment because Docker didn't yet work with cgroupsv2 and many hours were spent debugging Podman-specific issues. In the end switching to cgroupsv1 would have been significantly less work.

Therefore claiming you can `alias docker=podman` is a bit disingenuous. You can, but only if you don't do anything Podman can't handle and what it can and cannot handle isn't immediately obvious.

All that said, I wish the project the best and hope it reaches the maturity where this alias actually does work.