HN has reached the point, that it will heavily downvote an objective fact because it goes against the pointed narrative. They took a dependency, copied its system requirements, and someone asks "why?" and that is the actual answer.
A lot of the other answers (multiple Dockers, slimmer image) really address how Docker themselves have these exact system requirements listed, but why do they need to when the point isn't to answer the actual request asked by get lost into a predisposed critique.
- https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/linux-install/
HN has reached the point, that it will heavily downvote an objective fact because it goes against the pointed narrative. They took a dependency, copied its system requirements, and someone asks "why?" and that is the actual answer.
A lot of the other answers (multiple Dockers, slimmer image) really address how Docker themselves have these exact system requirements listed, but why do they need to when the point isn't to answer the actual request asked by get lost into a predisposed critique.