Does Linux Need Containers?

15 thoughts on “Does Linux Need Containers?”

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• Title is 100% click-bait. Should be more like, "Do normies need containers, linux or maybe linux with containers; Or how I learned to love containers and so should you.." Containers solve many problems and have been around in one shape or another for decades.

• A little bit out of topic, but I remembered you often say that you want to get rid of your mouse and I wanted to suggest you to have a look at the Thinkpad Compact Keyboard. It is just a plain Thinkpad keyboard with the famous trackpad in the middle. I switched to it when I was on my Surface Pro (with Linux..) and using the trackpad let's you keep your fingers on the keyboard all the time. My workflow has improved so much, and I can see yours getting even better as you actually use keybinding to navigate the desktop UI.

• Steve – It's pronounced "why you no host". Yunohost is fricking awesome. I used it for years!

• remove app installs away from root level, flatpak, docker and let the apps not interfere with the OS

• I'm all in on virtualization. It's the future!

• I have to give major props to Steve for the subject of containers and yes he looked as edified as a snake-handling containercostal in Appalachia. I really love the content as the podcast is really taking off and becoming an excellent source for info in an entertaining way. So is Tyler and Josh's channels. I love it all! thanks man!

• I dont mind snaps. But I mind flatpaks and Appimages. I dont trust either of the latter as each time they touch things it's highly possible for them to break.

  The best solution in my opinion is to have the Linux FS to literally become windows so all this madness about dependencies ends. I mean theres really no need for a package container to have an entire filesystem inside of it.

• Linux isn’t even the geekiest part of this. I love it

• Debconf2014, 14 August. DotFiles all over the Place.

• I'm on Fedora Silverblue using a browser via toolbox. This means I have a separate icon in my dock for every window I open, I can't click to open a downloaded file because it opens in the container rather than on my desktop, and to install a web app which I can access via the apps menu I have to move the desktop file and icon into their proper folders myself, because web apps get installed in the container.

  I also can't see folder bookmarks (the ones created in Nautilus) in the Gedit file panel, or in some Open/Save dialogs, and I recently had a problem syncing GNote to a local folder because the home directory is virtualised and (as far as I can tell) its literal path changed after I rebased Silverblue from version 38 to 39.

  Containers and immutability are great unless you want an integrated system. Steve's contanerised audiobook library looks cool, and would be great for a home server + Chromebook setup. But is it better than having a desktop application which can hook into KRunner or the Gnome overview's search function? (That search function is another casualty of Silverblue – it's pretty unreliable, and usually slow when it does work)

• From a software development point of view, containerized packages is the CORRECT way of distributing applications, your app should never touch nor interfere with the underlying system unless you explicitly need to (hence permissions). Flatpak in my honest opinion is the way to go for software distribution on Linux.

• 10:44 you could just use something like Caddy as a web server and setup a reverse proxy for CasaOS, it isn't that difficult to get HTTPS, even ngnix reverse proxy + certbot it's possible

• 7:43 have a look at the Internet Archive, you have every single romset for every console there

• Thanks for interesting podcast. Love listening to you in background

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