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by nathanaldensr 3556 days ago
I just wonder about the utility of all this. Most people should be trying to target .NET Standard/.NET Core and simply run their apps on Linux, meaning they can use regular Linux distributions with Docker installed. Who is Microsoft expecting to actually use Docker on Windows?

EDIT: I'll answer my own question and say that this is probably targeted toward shops that rely on a Microsoft stack (e.g., full .NET Framework, SQL Server, etc.) Running Docker on Windows and getting fully-configured environments should be a big boon to productivity for these folks.

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99% of .net apps don't run on Linux yet.
Bump that up to 99.99% and you'd be right.

There are a lot of big .Net heavy-duty apps that are wedded to Windows.

There are a lot of legacy apps, and third party components that use bits of .Net that aren't in core (or mono), and unlikely to ever be there.