1. In the past, created a managed WSL vm to run containers.
2. At some point, it included the option to use a WSL distro instead, but you had to tell it explicitly.
3. Nowadays it detects whether a default WSL distro is present and uses it to run containers automatically. Otherwise it creates a managed WSL distro just to run containers.
As far as I understand, Podman Desktop still is at (1). You can't tell it to use your own WSL distro.
> I'm about to try `sudo dnf install podman` and hope it connects to the podman-machine? I dunno, it's not exactly clear
I think podman-machine is meant to be executed on the host, but worth a try anyway
1. In the past, created a managed WSL vm to run containers.
2. At some point, it included the option to use a WSL distro instead, but you had to tell it explicitly.
3. Nowadays it detects whether a default WSL distro is present and uses it to run containers automatically. Otherwise it creates a managed WSL distro just to run containers.
As far as I understand, Podman Desktop still is at (1). You can't tell it to use your own WSL distro.
> I'm about to try `sudo dnf install podman` and hope it connects to the podman-machine? I dunno, it's not exactly clear
I think podman-machine is meant to be executed on the host, but worth a try anyway