... all 6 of which were running a linux vm until recently, and still predominately so (windows containers are hugely niche and have just about as much 'loner ch

... all 6 of which were running a linux vm until recently, and still predominately so (windows containers are hugely niche and have just about as much 'loner children' baggage in the larger commmunity) writing a gui to spin up the VM flavor du-jour with one hipster command that you can show in an animated terminal in your bloated website doesn't make something cross platform underneath the hood, and that same VM runtime could run just about anything else. and no, i don't miss the point. you miss the point - you are arguing market share as if it is technical merit. I'll take 1 true school unix hacker over 5 million 'noders' who cant debug their super hip k8s clusters they provisioned 'in the cloud' with wget|sh when they break.