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It's not good but it's the best we've got. There's a reason the most common alternative to distro dependency management involves shipping entire copies of other distro with a few adjustments inside of a sandbox to make sure it doesn't conflict with the other copies of other distros.





> but it's the best we've got

Naw. Lack of reliability in running programs is a distinctly Linux phenomenon. Windows culture is much much much better.


Shipping bundles of whatever libraries for each app is a security nightmare. I don't know how the Windows model can be suggested with any seriousness.

The modern day reality is that on Linux everyone ships countless Docker containers of god knows what libraries and binaries that was built lord knows when. So its exact the same thing except there’s an extra step that’s fighting how the system wants to operate.

The existence of Linux distros with software not packaged using Docker implies that it is definitely not "everyone".

eye roll

I know I’m dealing with programmers but the level of precision required on internet comments is absurd.

I work on Windows and don’t use Docker so I too known it’s not Everyone. But when I said everyone I would like to think not Everyone assumed I meant literally Everyone. Capitalization intended.


Aside from server software, who really distributes software using Docker? My point is it's closer to "no one" than "everyone".



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