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Re:Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applic... by chpatrick on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:51PM (#44999423)
Docker (and also Nix) exists because it's not trivial to manage the whole environment needed to run an application.

There's a reason everyone uses it for ops these days, and not some Windows thing.

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Re:Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applic... by forrestthewoods on Sunday August 24, 2025 @09:04PM (#45009246)
Yes. The reason is that Linux made very bad design decisions.

> it’s not trivial to manage the whole environment needed to run the application

This is a distinctly Linux problem. Despite what Linux would lead you to believe it is not actually hard to run a computer program.

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Re:Closing the Nix Gap: From Environments to Packaged Applic... by chpatrick on Monday August 25, 2025 @09:23AM (#45013589)
Ok then where is the amazing non Linux deployment solution that everyone uses instead?
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