If you're throwing proprietary binaries over the wall for clients who aren't paying enough to support all their platforms, I guess picking one is a necessary ev

If you're throwing proprietary binaries over the wall for clients who aren't paying enough to support all their platforms, I guess picking one is a necessary evil. But it seems strange to set up a container, which is essentially your own custom distro which nobody else uses, rather than just picking a well-supported distro. And if I had a goal of minimizing any interaction between my code and its environment, Linux syscalls are a much bigger API than I would choose. It's not as if you can claim to support a distro whose kernel or docker version you haven't tested on.