Windows 7 has reached EOL a year ago (minus two days), so yeah, maybe it's not very well supported...
What a ridiculous statement, do you truly want to live in a world where they can't? Most authors on sci-hub themselves would struggle with containers.
If a mechanic mocked a room full of people for not being able to change their own oil what would you think of them?
Please reconsider such an ideological stance.
I doubt that most people able to read and publish complex scientitic papers would "struggle" to follow what is overall a one page sequence of instructions to enter in a computer. You don't need to understand containers to run docker.
I don't really get the analogy with the mechanic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe we live in different worlds but the average (non-cs)professor would very much struggle with this stuff. I've seen some barely being able to use basic programs, they are skilled in very different domains and no one will bat an eyelid if they slowly click on the mouse to copy/paste every day of the week. Rocking the command line is certainly not in their job description for the most part.
Even comp-sci academics do work that is horrendously bad and not even close to what would pass in the workplace for an entry level graduate.
> the analogy with the mechanic
Essentially an adult saying to a group of children "this is so simple for me, what are you a dumbass?"