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Flatpak and snapd seem to have some similar goals but aren't mentioned in the related projects section? I would have thought it would now be more performant to

Flatpak and snapd seem to have some similar goals but aren't mentioned in the related projects section? I would have thought it would now be more performant to do something like this using Wayland and, if the app uses X11, multiple isolated xwayland instances somehow. That way you might be able to get GPU acceleration, which I don’t think is possible through xpra?

williamstein 6y ago
I wonder if there is anything like this that is cross platform (e.g., Windows, Linux, MacOS), probably building on what Docker provides? - Subuser - Securing the Linux desktop with Docker - Flatpak - The Future of Apps on Linux - snapd - Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for the operating systems that use the Linux kernel.
- ori_b 6y ago
  Docker on Mac or Windows is a Linux VM. It's not magically portable.
  - lostmsu 6y ago
    As long as it works, does it matter?
    - bauerd 6y ago
      Yes, because you get the performance overhead of a VM Containers are good old userspace processes in comparison scheduled by the kernel you already run
    - ori_b 6y ago
      You can also run flatpak in a linux vm, and use X11 to see it in Windows, so how is this different?
  - mattlondon 6y ago
    Is that still true for WSL2?
    - ori_b 6y ago
      WSL1 was not a VM. WSL2 is a VM.
  - dastx 6y ago
    Windows based containers do exist. Docker for Windows can run both Linux (a VM) and Windows applications. If I'm not mistaken, both are implemented via HyperV.