Docker makes your life easier.
You get working software with all their dependencies in one go, no need to worry about incompatibilities with other software, or updates, or versions of dependencies, etc.
You can actually move your docker folder to a different drive or partition.
If you’re worried about disk writes, set up your docker directory on a Btrfs drive and use the Btrfs docker backend: it will leverage Btrfs snapshots and CoW capabilities for image creation and storage, which will see a reduction in space used. Even more so if your Btrfs filesystem has compression enabed.
Docker makes your life easier.
You get working software with all their dependencies in one go, no need to worry about incompatibilities with other software, or updates, or versions of dependencies, etc.
You can actually move your docker folder to a different drive or partition.
If you’re worried about disk writes, set up your docker directory on a Btrfs drive and use the Btrfs docker backend: it will leverage Btrfs snapshots and CoW capabilities for image creation and storage, which will see a reduction in space used. Even more so if your Btrfs filesystem has compression enabed.