podman and Docker run just fine on arm macOS. Both also support multiple architectures through emulation. Docker supports: arm64 amd64 amd64/v2 riscv64 ppc64le

podman and Docker run just fine on arm macOS. Both also support multiple architectures through emulation. Docker supports: arm64 amd64 amd64/v2 riscv64 ppc64le s390x and 386. Also, dev containers should == server containers. This is the proper way to develop, and it's entirely unreasonable and impractical to also foist a server OS as a developer laptop OS. Use the most useful, comfortable, and practical developer desktop OS... which, sadly, is rarely Linux even these days because app support and OS usability still isn't at parity with the $$ ones post-Canonical. Invariably, it's Mac or Windows. If someone also wishes to make their lives more difficult (or perhaps easier), then all power to them to run a Linux distro or FreeBSD.