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by justinsaccount 1254 days ago
> I honestly don't know how Docker got so popular when it sucks so much on anything that is not Linux.

How do these sound to you?

I honestly don't know how Active Directory got so popular when it sucks so much on anything that is not Windows.

I honestly don't know how Final Cut Pro got so popular when it sucks so much on anything that is not OS X.
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toyg 1254 days ago
They sound silly.

The population that uses Active Directory lives almost exclusively on Windows.

The population that uses FCP lives almost exclusively on MacOS (OSX is dead, long live OSX)

The population that uses Docker does not live exclusively on Linux. In fact, a minority of developers works on Linux laptops, even when they target it for deployment. It's a larger minority than in other sectors, but it's definitely a minority, not even a relative majority. The population of (web) developers is possibly the most evenly-distributed of all, in terms of OS.

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justinsaccount 1254 days ago
If someone was trying to run an Active directory domain controller on a windows VM on a mac mini, what would you tell them?

If someone was trying to run FCP on an OS X VM on a linux box, what would you tell them?

It's not the fault of docker or linux containers that people insist on trying to use the technology on another unsupported operating system.

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toyg 1253 days ago
> It's not the fault of docker or linux containers that people insist

Obviously, it's the fault of people - as I said in the comment above: I'm surprised it got so popular among people, considering how much it sucks on the platforms lots of them use.

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dmix 1254 days ago
Docker is something that should be cross platform far more than those examples.

The whole idea of using Docker for dev boxes is to eliminate the cross platform dependency issues and make it easier for everyone, without maintaining wikis for each OS version. We don't use Docker at work because of the non-Linux performance issues.

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justinsaccount 1254 days ago
Apple is free to port the docker daemon to run natively on OS X.

Running the docker daemon in a linux VM on your OS X system and then complaining about performance is silly.

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