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The only reason it works so well on Linux is because containers are bog standard Linux processes running with no real overhead sans the kernel structures needed to maintain the namespacing. Entries in the VFS are cheap.

Once you need a hypervisor most of the benefits are gone. But if you need the hypervisor anyway which might be the case for software that doesn’t have Mac builds then it starts to look attractive.




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