Docker (and also Nix) exists because it's not trivial to manage the whole environment needed to run an application.

There's a reason everyone uses it for ops these days, and not some Windows thing.

Yes. The reason is that Linux made very bad design decisions.

> it’s not trivial to manage the whole environment needed to run the application

This is a distinctly Linux problem. Despite what Linux would lead you to believe it is not actually hard to run a computer program.