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by monocasa 255 days ago
Why do they need a docker container and a vm?
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onehair 255 days ago
because windows isn't bloat enough /runs-away-as-this-joke-might-not-be-funny-toall-xD
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GoblinSlayer 255 days ago
VM runs the actual thing, and docker is package manager.
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monocasa 255 days ago
But my read is that the electron application is out of the docker container. It's distributed as an appimage.

So then what is the docker container doing?

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d3Xt3r 254 days ago
The docker container hosts QEMU and the docker files to run Windows. The author probably chose this method because the dockur/windows project basically automates and simplifies the whole process of installing and configuring QEMU, and installing and configuring Windows etc.

See: https://github.com/dockur/windows

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throitallaway 255 days ago
Maybe I would call Docker an installation and running method rather than a package manager in this case.
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