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> I don't have any good ideas for how to break this cycle. By 2028, I expect every to-do app will include its own 4GB copy of Ubuntu because it's convenient.

2028? More like 2015. It’s already like that for much of what runs in Docker containers.

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Is it? Most people I’ve seen working with Docker have tried their best to use Alpine for everything. Even something with a lot of OS dependencies tends to end up at around 200MB on the high end.

my nginx image is around 16M until I add python (certbot)

Kind of, except that the base ubuntu image is more like 70MB.

I was thinking of the Ubuntu desktop. Each desktop utility could be its own virtual machine, and it wouldn't be so far removed from what already happens with Electron.

see https://www.qubes-os.org/ and https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/

And if things are using the same base, you don't have multiple copies but only one copy of the base image.

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