[protomyth]

That's basically the argument to use Windows and Windows-based technology and not Linux. Everything you can do on any of the UNIX boxes, you can do with Windows. It might be different, but it is still a more popular / supported platform.

Since I'm not a Windows fan, I find value in doing it differently, and so have Linux fans. I think you will find FreeBSD and SmartOS users find the cost in time to bring a large enough gain to satisfy their business requirements.

[xaduha]

> That's basically the argument to use Windows and Windows-based technology and not Linux.

Not today it isn't. Years, maybe decades ago it could be.

What Linux containers do is help to remove the barrier that various distributions introduced, it makes things more accessible and it's more lightweight than using virtualization. Centos, Alpine, Ubuntu, whatever. As long as it is in a container I can work with it. I can even run some Windows binaries with Wine inside a container. rkt is largely compatible with Docker infrastructure, so that too is fine.

But what jimktrains2 suggesting is complete opposite of that, it reduces options.

[laumars]

> But what jimktrains2 suggesting is complete opposite of that, it reduces options.

Personally I'd consider having familiarity with more than one platform would increase one's options.

But ultimately having other solutions on the market is a good thing. Not only because no one solution is the best at every metric (be it stability, security, speed, memory usage, nor any specific requirements), nor because different solutions can appeal to different personalities. But mostly because different solutions might solve a problem in a unique way that the competing solutions may not have considered - often in ways that can ported and thus benefit the competitors and wider community.

So I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss anything that's outside your field of expertise.

[xaduha]

What you're talking about is a luxury I can't afford. That's what I mean when I talk about the price. There are plenty of far more important technologies that I would rather learn.

I can't afford to learn two technologies that do about the same thing, of which one is significantly less popular, might now have tools that other has and runs on a significantly less popular OS.

[laumars]

That's actually a fair point and one I completely sympathise with. But your original argument very much sounded like you were suggesting that people in general shouldn't bother with FreeBSD, jails, nor any other technologies which weren't dominant in their respective field. Which is why we disagreed.

[xaduha]

You misinterpreted it.