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Docker on Mac or Windows is a Linux VM. It's not magically portable.

• lostmsu 6y ago
  As long as it works, does it matter?
  • bauerd 6y ago
    Yes, because you get the performance overhead of a VM Containers are good old userspace processes in comparison scheduled by the kernel you already run
  • ori_b 6y ago
    You can also run flatpak in a linux vm, and use X11 to see it in Windows, so how is this different?
• mattlondon 6y ago
  Is that still true for WSL2?
  • ori_b 6y ago
    WSL1 was not a VM. WSL2 is a VM.
• dastx 6y ago
  Windows based containers do exist. Docker for Windows can run both Linux (a VM) and Windows applications. If I'm not mistaken, both are implemented via HyperV.