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grim_iotoday at 10:53 AM1 replyview on HN

Distrobox is great for cli apps and stuff not touching mesa/drivers.

It's very awkward or unusable otherwise.


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d3Xt3rtoday at 11:08 AM

Hasn't been my experience, running KDE Wayland on host with amdgpu. Just had to pass `--extra-flags "env GDK_BACKEND=wayland"` when exporting the app. Zero issues, far from being unusable.

In fact you can even run an entire DE from Distrobox if you wanted to, although I can imagine that being a bit awkward. But a single GUI app? Shouldn't be an issue unless you've got a tricky/niche setup.

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