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I wonder how Distrobox compares to nix shell. If I understand correctly, Distrobox makes it convenient to launch (and destroy) lightweight VMs on demand, while
by puzzledobserver 3y ago
I wonder how Distrobox compares to nix shell.
If I understand correctly, Distrobox makes it convenient to launch (and destroy) lightweight VMs on demand, while nix shell makes it convenient to drop into a shell with some package installed. The documentation around nix has unfortunately been unapproachable in my experience.
Of course, Flatpaks+Podman will be a learning curve, but I'm eager to try Silverblue+Distrobox on one of my computers.
- yonatan8070 3y agoFrom what I understand DistroBox creates a container, not a virtual machine. The difference is that containers share the host's resources and kernel, while a VM is completely seperate
- puzzledobserver 3y agoIndeed, by "lightweight VM", I meant a container of the kind provided by Podman and Docker.