After trying out Cosmos Cloud (and it not working for the clients), I’m back at square one again. I was going to install Docker Desktop, but I see it warns that it runs on a VM. Will this be a problem when trying to remote connect to certain services, like Mealie or Jellyfin?


No its not.
While podman fully OCI image compliant, the network stack of it is different. And podman runsias user, not as root.
Not to mention that podman is a CLI, but OP asked for GUI
https://podman-desktop.io/
That’s interesting. I didn’t know Podman had a Windows environment desktop app.
Also works good in macos. Been using it instead of the lima/colima stack for a few weeks now.
Tbf Idk how well it works on windows, but on Linux and Mac I have had no problems with it.
Ok, this is interesting 🙂 they also have a learning center thing it says, so maybe I can take the classes/lessons/tutorials they mention.
I just really hope I then figure out the remote connection stuff. That’s the one I’m most paranoid about and wanting to figure out