You are missing the point I think: Running a setup like this allows developing and testing the environment only once for the first app you develop with these de

You are missing the point I think: Running a setup like this allows developing and testing the environment only once for the first app you develop with these dependencies. You basically get deployment as well as the development environment for further projects based on this environment for 'free'. Having Docker between VirtualBox and Mono adds almost no overhead while giving you a nice clean slate with no environment properties from other projects that could somehow influence the runtime behavior. Now, the question for me is whether this is worth it for .Net - is Mono so good, that one would want to lock himself into a Linux-only environment like this?