The *Podman Desktop* installer also installs *Podman* . Along the way of that process, a macOS notification says that the "Red Hat, Inc." item of software is installed to run automatically as an item in the "Allow in the Background" panel of Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions. I understand Red Hat company is the principal behind Podman. But what exactly is that piece of software with their name? And why does it do while running in the background?

When setting up a Podman machine in Podman Desktop app, one of the features is "Machine with root privileges". I am inclined to disable that because I am using Podman for safety, to insulate contained software isolated away from my host Mac. The documentation says nothing helpful: >Machine with root privileges: Enable to use the rootful connection by default. Required to use Kind on Windows. If I disable "Machine with root privileges", what will I be giving up?