Qbert VS podman

I'd recommend qbert rather than disabling the read-only filesystem. It survives updates and you can just turn it off if you want to.

But if you do, qbert will make it behave like a normal arch Linux so you can follow the tutorials on the internet.

This was recommended to me: https://github.com/XargonWan/Qbert

Also, I would advise you use Qbert or Junest to install it, instead of making the filesystem writable, because a SteamOS update will wipe all that data

To do that, you will either need to unlock the read-only part or use qbert to get the same effect in a way that can't break stuff.

for pacman on deck you can use qbert, which will let you leave the system read-only and lets you keep your files between updates. You can even put it into .bashrc so it runs automatically on boot.

A lot of well-known Docker alternatives emerged at this point, the most commonly recommended of which must be Podman (along with Podman Desktop). This is what I use on my Windows machines, and this was the first solution that I tried on the Macbook as well.

Example of why: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/5102#issuecommen...

Podman

Even though we will focus on Docker for this article, I wanted to mention that there are more container creation and management tools such as Podman, Rkt, and so on.

By using containerization, the application will always have the same configuration that is used in the development environment and production environment. There is no more "It works on my machine". Some examples of containerization technologies are Docker and Podman.

Podman Documentation. Podman is a daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers on your Linux System.

AFAIK podman either already supports pods in quadlet container files, or will in the near future. https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/20762

Podman as a devcontainers engine doesn't currently work if you use devcontainer features [1] or (and this sounds like you're issue) if you use WSL2.

I haven't submitted the WSL2 issue to the Podman team yet. If you get to it before I do, can you like it here?

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/18691#issuecomme...

You can also use their Oracle Linux Docker images with the database preinstalled using either Podman or Docker. Just make absolutely sure you are downloading something you are licensed to use, because it seems really easy to accidentally infringe copyright via this method.