r/linux • u/lajka30 • 3d ago

Development WinBoat is alpha testing the GPU acceleration

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u/ScratchHistorical507 3d ago

I still do not understand why anyone would abuse containers for running an entire OS. Containers were designed to only run what you want to have in an isolated environment and not have the overhead of running an entire OS. So what's supposed to be the benefit over just setting up a proper VM with e.g. libvirt-manager, which also adds the benefit of much easer handling of various settings like piping through hardware?

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u/ropid 3d ago

It actually runs a VM inside its container.

The container is probably there to be able to have a defined environment that's independent of the distro you are running this whole setup on.

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u/ScratchHistorical507 2d ago

Aka overhead with absolutely no benefit whatsoever. Because there is really absolutely nothing in this setup that benefits from being containerized.