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by bitfilped 537 days ago
Docker isn't a platform portable experience fwiw
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Your Linux based docker containers can work on all major platforms, how is that not a portable experience?
There are more OSs than Windows and Linux :)
What other portability platform supports all of them? Only the browser if anything, so we build everything in Node and Electron?
What platform are you thinking you'd want to use this on that docker doesn't support
FreeBSD and Solaris mostly for me. There are many other OSs though than Linux and Windows.
FreeBSD should work with podman, which isn't literally docker but is probably drop in for this use and can use the Linux compatibility layer.

A quick turned up https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/freebsd-basics-8-running-l... which seems to confirm.

I frequently am bothered that I can't run docker on mainline Android.

(Without rooting, qemu, or other malarkey)