Oh boy, installing #docker on #linuxmint is a pain in the... whatever.

[root42@chaos.social]

Oh boy, installing #docker on #linuxmint is a pain in the... whatever. It's stuck in an infinite loop saying "Starting docker engine..." and docker backend is stuck at 100% CPU load. Nothing happening...

[cymplecy@fosstodon.org]

@root42 Using docker to solve a problem results in at least two problems

[root42@chaos.social]

@cymplecy Yeah, I am only using it reluctantly anyway... Not a fan!

[root42@chaos.social]

Ok... so it seems to be an apparmor issue:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1511725/ubuntu-24-04-docker-desktop-is-not-starting

[root42@chaos.social]

Nope, that didn't help either. God, what an awful piece of software.

[root42@chaos.social]

Ok, so it is stuck in a loop, vomiting all over my SSD. What IS this file? I aborted, since it was filling up my whole drive.

[alexanderdyas@mindly.social]

@root42 @cymplecy podman unless you really need Docker

[root42@chaos.social]

@alexanderdyas No, I just want to run a small container for the Meshtastic web client...

[root42@chaos.social]

@alexanderdyas Wow, podman worked wonders!
sudo apt install podman
Then:
podman run -d -p 8080:8080 --restart always --name Meshtastic-Web ghcr.io/meshtastic/web
And it's working. Sooooo much easier than docker!

[alexanderdyas@mindly.social]

@root42

No deamon, no fake business model.

Containers != Docker