I guess Podman[1] - I swapped to using that instead of Docker on my Linux servers a while back and it's definitely working well.
Docker is ubiquitous and significantly more battle-tested, and even has a rootless mode now. And it works on Mac and PC alike.
For me, it was, but I'm very much not doing anything complicated - just running some services in containers with an occasional 'compose' scenario.
> Docker is ubiquitous and significantly more battle-tested
Sure but if you now have to pay to use Docker Desktop at your company, Podman might be a better option.
I think that's fair. Then again, Docker as a company has been struggling to get customers, and their practices are... Let's say highly sub-optimal.
Feel free to pay for Docker. In our company, Docker is almost a curse word by now.
[0]: https://blog.newsblur.com/2021/06/28/story-of-a-hacking/
A lot of these container runtimes are needlessly complicated and not very enjoyable to package, so this is why not many are available in the official repositories.