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Ah good, was worried these performance gains from recent CPU advances might create unreasonable user expectations.

Apps in linux containers run at the same speed as any other app running on that system.

This comment is pure snark.

Exactly, the same usage for cpu and astonishingly also for memory. It's no virtual machine but a contained program that doesn't access your host system. Even X11 forward is secure with Xpra X11 bridge.

It has always been like this, computers become faster which allow us to do more software abstractions.

Okay, but ... what is being gained here? The ability to package programs so they run on a computer without you worrying about it? That is an ability we had since the 1960s, that people gave up for "reasons" that are questionable at best.

Someday people will realize they don't have to make their computers orders of magnitude slower just in order to get back capabilities that used to come automatically.

But that day is not today, I guess.

>The ability to package programs so they run on a computer without you worrying about it?

Have we forgot about DLL hell and the myriad of security problems we've experienced since then?

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