> Let's take an extreme example. If I build an app on Ubuntu and then try to run it against the system libraries on Alpine, it'll fail, because Alpine is built

> Let's take an extreme example. If I build an app on Ubuntu and then try to run it against the system libraries on Alpine, it'll fail, because Alpine is built against a different libc. I mean, on windows if I use a given libc, say msvcrt or ucrt (or heck, newlib with cygwin) I have to ship it anyways with my app. Linux makes that harder but in practice there's no way around this.