alt Hacker Newsfwiw I recently bootstrapped a small Debian image for myself, originally intended to sandbox coding agents I was evaluating. Shortly after I got annoyed by baseline vim and added my tmux & nvim dotfiles, now I find myself working inside the container regularly. It definitely works and is actually not the worst experience if your workflow is cli-focused.
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SOLAR_FIELDS • last Sunday at 3:12 PM
My experience is if the tooling is set up right it’s not painful, it’s the fiddling around with volume mounts folder permissions and debug points and “what’s inside the container and what isn’t” etc that is always the big pain point
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Even putting GUI apps in a container isnt too bad once one develops the right incantation for x11/wayland forwarding.