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Apptainer: Application Containers for Linux

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106 points cl3misch | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 09:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.252s | source
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eisbaw ◴[26 Jun 25 10:11 UTC] No.44385893[source]▶
Argh, yet another way to distribute userland images. AppImages does it right by including the run-time with the image itself - no prior installation needed.

More nix less containers, btw.

E.g. docker run -ti nixery.dev/shell/cowsay bash for on-the-fly containers based on Nix.

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1. lotharcable ◴[26 Jun 25 21:18 UTC] No.44391507[source]▶
Appimage is terrible. It works by trying to make applications in appimages adhere to a lowest common denominator between Linux distros... which amounts to forcing application developers to develop for the oldest version of Linux appimage supports.

Nix is a huge pain to deal with.

Nix makes me think of the old Zawinski joke of:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems,"

Except there are less upsides for using Nix over something like OCI.