How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my container”

Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by KronisLV on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:46AM (#36891668)

> They did, many times. they're called flatpaks/snaps/self executing zip files.

Honestly, getting some desktop software in the form of one of those is wonderfully refreshing. Just take an AppImage file or whatever, make it executable and run it.

Sometimes you don't care about the benefits of shared libraries and want something to just run regardless of what's going on with your distro, for which these technologies are great. Ideally, in addition to the proper package manager approach for those that value different things at different times.

But for shipping things like WebApps, OCI containers and Docker/Podman is amazing.

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Re:How “It works in my machine” turns to “It works in my con... by hughesjj on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:09PM (#37007039)

I was a huge fan of portable apps back in the day. Plug in a usb stick, and boom, I could use firefox on my school computer instead of ie6

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