The internet says "containers are the holy grail, it's cross-platform and you can run your images and get the same result everywhere"

The practice says: nope... it doesn't do that

@atheist I haven't been bitten by diff instruction sets in containers yet. Care to elaborate?

If you get bored by Docker, try NixOS

@usr--2ndry I'm struggling to find package versions' archives in the search webpage

If all components of your app run natively on your os, you don't need containers.

@kiki you do when it means conflicts (lib/ver) with other apps.

@netikras we have a billion solutions to this: versioned lib files, chroot, recompiling from source, switching programs and not putting up with that shit... you have options that aren't "run virtualbox with a shared folder tied to the host's root" for every single program.