They both utilize all the linux c-group magic to containerize. So performance is roughly the same. Incus is an LXD fork, and focuses on "system" containers. Yo

They both utilize all the linux c-group magic to containerize. So performance is roughly the same. Incus is an LXD fork, and focuses on "system" containers. You basically get a full distro, complete with systemd, sshd, etc. etc. so it is easy to replace a VM with one of these. podman and docker are focused on OCI containers which typically run a single application (think webserver, database, etc). I actually use them together. My host machine runs both docker and incus. Docker runs my home server utilities (syncthing, vaultwarden, etc) and Incus runs a system container with my development environment in it. I have nested c-groups enabled so that incus container actually runs another copy of docker _within itself_ for all my development needs (redis, postgres, etc). What's nice about this is that the development environment can easily be backed up, or completely nuked without affecting my host. I use VS Code remote SSH to develop in it. The host typically uses < 10GB RAM with all this stuff running.. about half what it did when I was using KVM instead of Incus.