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I'm a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don’t even get me started on .NET or the various and sundry “redistributables” constantly required by every tool you try to use.

It's absurd but Linux is far worse. Instead of addressing library bloat and versioning we have Docker which just throws EVERYTHING into a bag and makes you download an entire OS environment space to run one app.

[–] s38b35M5@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not Linux, though; that's docker.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

.net isn't Windows.

[–] captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And that is perfect. Instead of setting up one VM for each service and manually updating all dependencies, I’d much rather use that very handy bag with everything in it.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

But the op is complaining about the much lighter .net where the shared libraries for all apps are a fraction of the space of bringing in an entire OS environment for each and every app.