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by arp242 814 days ago
Docker is a Linux thing, and very much not host-platform independent. It's just "chroot on steroids", and you're essentially just shipping a bunch of Linux binaries in a .tar.gz.

It works on other systems because they emulate or virtualize enough of a Linux system to make it work. That's all fine, but comes with serious trade-offs in terms of performance, system integration, and things like that. A fair trade-off, but absolutely not host-platform independent.