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Call me crusty, old-fart, unwilling to embrace change... but docker has always felt like a cop-out to me as a dev. Figure out what breaks and fix it so your app is more robust, stop being lazy.
I pretty much refuse to install any app which only ships as a docker install.
No need to reply to this, you don't have to agree and I know the battle has been already lost. I don't care. Hmmph.
Docker or containers in general provide isolation too, not just declarative image generation, it's all neatly packaged into one tool that isn't that heavy on the system either, it's not a cop out at all.
If I could choose, not for laziness, but for reproducibility and compatibility, I would only package software in 3 formats:
The rest of the native packaging formats are all good in their own way, but not as good. Some may have specific use cased that make them best like Appimage, soooo result...
Yeah, no universal packaging format yet