That seems like yet another case of freedesktop&#x2F;gnome&#x2F;fedora finding another hammer and applying it to all the &quot;nails&quot;.<p>Containers fix a problem that unix has solved for decades.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soname" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soname</a><p>The problem is the package managers used by most distros getting hung up on there only being a single version number of each package name installed at any one time.<p>Sort that out, like say how Gobolinux does it, and you do not need containers.<p>But containers is all the rage on the web these days, so ipso facto is also must be all the rage for desktop Linux.<p>Back before Gnome and Freedesktop, desktop Linux was a kernel up project. But more and more these days however it is a web down.<p>Meaning that web people get interested in using the L in LAMP on their desktops, start looking into Gnome&#x2F;KDE, then get involved in Freedesktop plumbing, and all the while bring their web-isms (&quot;move fast and break stuff&quot; being the most annoying) with them further down the stack.