The scenario is: write a Vagrantfile and create the VM on Linux, then manually fix it or evolve it and never destroy and rebuild the VM. Then give that Vagrantf

The scenario is: write a Vagrantfile and create the VM on Linux, then manually fix it or evolve it and never destroy and rebuild the VM. Then give that Vagrantfile to somebody on Windows a couple of years later. Chanches are that it won't work as intended. That's more difficult to happen with a container and its image.