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On incus/lxd is true there containers can only be Linux..

Not sure about the one app thing but that’s the general design of those ad well I suppose.

Which just validates my point that a generic-sounding domain is the wrong place to host content that even within the Linux ecosystem is a relatively minor player.

lxc is used really frequently in the home space (jellyfin/plex for instance). A lot of Proxmox use cases as well which is growing in popularity extremely rapidly.

Which is small in the scope of things when Docker Desktop and containerd are both used at far larger scales.

I really wish I could just run regular docker or oci containers in Proxmox.

I’m not sure I follow. Are you suggesting OP has an incorrect apex domain name?

It’s like selling Pepsi exclusively on soda.org.

Don’t give them any ideas!!!

For that analogy to hold, Pepsi would have also invented sodas.

Like that matters to consumers? Regardless of who invented sodas, the market has changed and people connect more brands to the kind of drink now, so equating Pepsi to Soda is factually incorrect.

Oh God, you're really torturing the analogy now.

That’s my secret super power.

Only if Pepsi had always been called Soda Co and was older than Coca Cola.

LXC far predates docker regardless of size or impact. It's not disingenuous if you were literally the foundation docker was able to package into a shiny accessible tool.

Not only is this project website older than Docker, early versions of Docker literally used LXC as the backend, which was supported in Docker for the first two years of its life.

The Docker folks could have done their work under this umbrella and (maybe for good reasons) chose not to. For later container runtimes, idk the story.

But this project/community definitely laid the groundwork for all of those later Linux container runtimes.

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