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Well, Docker is great for this as long as you're not one of the unlucky few whose machine is bricked because of Docker. So, mostly yes, I suppose.

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What does that even mean?

"Bricking" is when your electronic device stops working, i.e. becomes a brick. Docker is known to occasionally brick Windows machines.

Wait… what!?

This is the first I’m hearing of this. Do you have any references?

You can find many references by googling some variations of keywords Docker, Windows, brick

Googled that, thanks for not providing clear references to your claims, and found that docker can crash Windows on boot, but not "brick" it. People are still able to safe boot, run system recovery/restore, or even reinstall Windows if they choose.

Besides, bricking software is impossible, bricking refers to physical devices unable to bootstrap anymore.

Not exactly. Hard brick is what you are referring to where you need to repair/reset the hardware OEM after corruption.

A soft brick is the actual reference here where you can easily recover from software/re-install.

Docker itself doesn't seem to have the best quality control for their official releases, so blindly upgrading Docker will likely bite you in the ass if you do it for a few years. :(

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