u/Newoobs

Hi everyone,

I’m currently setting up Podman on Proxmox and I need to choose which OS I would put my Podman LXC on.

So I initially chose Alpine (for its lightweight nature), but I realized that Quadlet isn’t available on Alpine.

I've recently restarted doing my homelab after just using community-script for all my services but I would like to understand what I'm doing.

So my questions are :

Does Quadlet offer significant advantages over Podman Compose ?
Is the performance/resource difference between Alpine and Debian noticeable in a Proxmox environment for typical usage ? Is the process of upgrading from something like Debian 12 to debian 13 is an headache when you're using podman ?