To be fair, scp was officially deprecated: it is effectively "legacy knowledge" now, and so soon it will be difficult to find anyone who can use it effectively.

To be fair, scp was officially deprecated: it is effectively "legacy knowledge" now, and so soon it will be difficult to find anyone who can use it effectively. https://lwn.net/Articles/835962/ https://lwn.net/Articles/835962/ In contrast, we all know that knowledge of the Docker container format is both universal and likely to "stand the test of time". That anyone would believe that merely downloading a binary and then running it directly could ever be easier than first downloading and installing Docker so that you can then run docker on yet another file clearly has never worked as a systems administrator.