• macniel@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    wait what? How, and whats the Benefit of having two uh… kernels running at the same time?

    • stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      10 months ago

      It uses the same kernel (it’s just a container) and the benefit is for example AUR without using unstable distro. You use AUR and if something breaks, it only breaks the container.

      • ebits21@lemmy.caEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Also keeps your base system clean if you uninstall (big reason why docker is so popular on servers). Can create custom environments for a project then just delete everything when you’re done.

        Also very useful on immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue (all my command line programs and some gui programs are in a distrobox container, exported to the host so they are just there like normal).

        The Distrobox assemble command allows you to install programs from a file and automatically export (unfortunately there’s some bugs I hope are fixed soon). So things can be declarative like nixos.