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Re:Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux by naikrovek on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @06:46PM (#36593475)
given that Docker mostly (entirely?) gives a single UI to various related Linux kernel features, I don't see how it is bloat at all. Docker just tells the kernel to create a separate cgroup and networking, CPU, and RAM namespaces and then launches one or more processes within the confines set up with those things.

it's the same overhead/bloat as launching any normal process in the default cgroup and contexts.

> ... wrapped in a docker container because the developer loves docker

I think you maybe don't love Docker and that's coloring some things for you, unjustly.

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Re:Bottles – Easily run Windows software on Linux by vetinari on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:30PM (#36594227)
It has slightly higher overhead than normal process, because the process will use a different set of userland libraries than your host normally uses (increasing memory usage) and the filesystem inside the container has a high chance to be a convoluted mess of overlaysfs mounts.

That said, it is hardly a "bloat".

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