It is beneficial, but you have to trade away a lot of control of your system and distribution in order to get those benefits. I personally have more hope for al

It is beneficial, but you have to trade away a lot of control of your system and distribution in order to get those benefits. I personally have more hope for alternatives like Actually Portable Executable, since it hybridizes the zip format with conventional static executables that run on multiple platforms, so you get the best of the both worlds: a fast conventional executable that functions as a container.