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Distrobox – Containers create compatibility across different Linux distros

story by peter_d_sherman · 2026-08-24 · 1 comment

I think that might be the only way. That or maybe even this? https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by johng · 2026-07-27 · in Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?

89luca89 mentioned that MacOS support was not in scope here: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/1697 100% their prerogative and will respect it if they come down hard against on this. but I've loved the project since my time on…

comment by gigatexal · 2026-01-16 · in Distrobox but with Support for macOS

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Distrobox but with Support for macOS

story by gigatexal · 2026-01-16 · 1 comment

how about https://containertoolbx.org/ ? or https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox ?

comment by lazylizard · 2026-01-14 · in Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

…“Distrobox” is an easy way to manage mostly isolated environments, to keep your main system clean: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox I use Nobara as my Desktop OS, which is a fedora/KDE based distribution by GloriousEggroll that’s a…

comment by Modified3019 · 2025-10-07 · in Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account

…Studio) and minimising their impact. Currently I just share X11 socket and run it in Docker. [0] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/issues/28

comment by bornfreddy · 2025-08-24 · in I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can

…A popular escape hatch for NixOS (or other immutable distros) for commandline tools is distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Another good tip mentioned on the NixOS wiki FAQ is nix-ldd with the dependencies from steam-run.…

comment by rgoulter · 2025-07-29 · in NixOS on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen9 AMD Laptop

…[1] https://mise.jdx.dev/ [2] https://github.com/containers/toolbox [3] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by pzmarzly · 2025-01-14 · in Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

…the Dev environment over to Linux and taking advantage of tools like "distrobox" and "toolbx". https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox https://containertoolbx.org/ It is sorta like Vagrant, but instead of using virtualbox virtual machines…

comment by lotharcable · 2024-11-04 · in We're Leaving Kubernetes

…toolbx but you can change home folder to ~/distrobox/appx or go all-out and unshare everything. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by abhinavk · 2024-08-28 · in Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files

…distrobox and keep it around as-is, to ensure against breaking changes in some of your tools. [0] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by piaste · 2024-08-01 · in The VS Code Flatpak is useless

…default. It wraps either QEMU or Apple's VZ framework. In my mind, Lima is spiritually similar to https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox , but for a Mac host For a more traditional VM GUI, there's https://mac.getutm.app/ which is a…

comment by ilyagr · 2024-05-27 · in Linux virtual machines, with a focus on running containers

…os and other containers remain unaffected. I use distrobox[1] to create/run the pet containers. [1] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by Alupis · 2024-04-25 · in Windows 11 now comes with its own adware

…with init if that's how you want to do that though. Some distros publish images that come that way: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...

comment by jcastro · 2024-02-10 · in Fedora Atomic Desktops

…machine, which distrobox makes really simple. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505448 ... https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...

comment by westurner · 2024-01-15 · in Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week

…and the local package manager uses that. We also enable Flathub out of the box and Distrobox: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox - then ship a few preconfigured boxes for you to play with: Ubuntu, Fedora, and Wolfi. Then we have another…

comment by jcastro · 2024-01-14 · in Project Bluefin: an immutable, developer-focused, Cloud-native Linux

…https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/linux_ke... 89luca89/distrobox: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox #quick-start 89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_tips.md#using-a-different-architecture:…

comment by westurner · 2023-12-03 · in Clang now makes binaries an original Pi B+ can't run

…a good experience. I did not try exposing the CLIs from there to the host OS but it sounds possible https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d... . I don't want to daily-drive Arch again, but it's a great project to…

comment by pzmarzly · 2023-11-30 · in Hysp – An independent package manager

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Distrobox 1.6.0

story by HieronymusBosch · 2023-11-20 · 0 comments

There's also distrobox https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox .

comment by jcotton42 · 2023-11-17 · in Flathub – The Linux App Store

…e.g. I think something like distrobox could be used if native-on-NixOS stuff has problems. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Nix can otherwise be difficult if you need to write some Nix code. There are several concepts in Nix which are…

comment by rgoulter · 2023-10-10 · in NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)

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Run Latest Gnome, KDE via Distrobox

story by denysonique · 2023-10-05 · 0 comments

…couple MB of rams and no perceptible CPU usage when not in use. At least as far as I can tell. [1] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d... [2] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d...

comment by eaglefield · 2023-09-21 · in Toolship: A more secure workstation

…easier with clean build containers. With distrobox (and qemu, qemu-user-static, and binfmt-support) https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_... : $ uname -m x86_64 $ distrobox create -i aarch64/fedora -n fedora-arm64 $…

comment by westurner · 2023-08-27 · in i386 in Ubuntu won't die

In addition to the other suggestions, you might want to check-out distrobox: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox It provides support for starting host commands within a container, and also exporting commands from containers to the host.

comment by Chris660 · 2023-08-13 · in Podman v4.6 Introduces Podmansh: A Revolutionary Login Shell

…of the reasons we made boxkit. Distrobox has an exciting new feature coming out called assemble: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/d... And since all this stuff is just docker containers you can just pick your…

comment by jcastro · 2023-05-15 · in Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

…podman. You can even setup booting into a container desktop environment from your login screen. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/r...

comment by ThatMedicIsASpy · 2023-05-15 · in Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

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Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

story by denysonique · 2023-05-14 · 100 comments

Have you played with distrobox at all? https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/r...

comment by klooney · 2023-04-01 · in Immutable Linux distributions

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox ; Is what this is really built on. I'm guessing the rest is just chrome, and getting a base OS of some form down, so you can use distrobox. Read what the page says, then look one layer deeper. You may…

comment by ilc · 2023-01-30 · in New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu

…Under the hood, this uses "distrobox" to create containers for supported distributions: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Supported distributions are defined in "blend" here: https://github.com/blend-os/blend/blob/4e4bdd33d2de374cb01e4.…

comment by isp · 2023-01-30 · in New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu

Seems like it uses https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox - but you can just use this directly from most Linux distros anyway.

comment by flanked-evergl · 2023-01-30 · in New Distro 'BlendOS' Combines Arch Linux, Fedora Linux and Ubuntu

Great answers in this thread. I opt for distrobox [1] over toolbox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by mmgutz · 2022-10-21 · in Ask HN: Fedora Kinoite – What does this do?

…on my NixOS setup. It runs without any issues and integrates with my system very well. [0] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by pongo1231 · 2022-10-21 · in Steam as a Snap

…containerizing? Agree 100%, and podman/docker already exist. The way I do it is to use [Distrobox]( https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox ) to use whatever distro's userspace has the thing I need (I use either the newer devel version of…

comment by jcastro · 2022-10-20 · in Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox If done right this could be a baby step towards Qubes, https://www.qubes-os.org/

comment by nerpderp82 · 2022-09-16 · in New Linux OS Scheduler Reduces Lag by Keeping Light Work on Fewer CPU Cores

…of what toolbox and distrobox is implementing. https://github.com/containers/toolbox/ https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox With the downside of not having the option to select a Linux distro and being locked to the nixpkgs repositories?

comment by Foxboron · 2022-08-26 · in Show HN: Devbox – Easy, predictable shells and containers

…a binary automatically, and this doesn't work well with NixOS. I've seen tools like distrobox https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox recommended as backups on NixOS, as well as the usual Docker / VMs. I secretly suspect some of the reason…

comment by rgoulter · 2022-07-31 · in Using Nix on macOS

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox may be of interest to you. Although I'd argue "Docker without containers" is a UX achieve.

comment by rgoulter · 2022-06-27 · in Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi

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Distrobox – Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

story by notThrowingAway · 2022-05-20 · 0 comments

…For developers, I find the Manjaro model superior. I also highly recommend looking into Distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Distrobox is Docker but instead of heavy sandboxing, when you are in the container you can see your…

comment by LeFantome · 2022-04-21 · in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released

…For developers, I find the Manjaro model superior. I also highly recommend looking into Distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Distrobox is Docker but instead of heavy sandboxing, when you are in the container you can see your…

comment by LeFantome · 2022-04-21 · in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released

distrobox to manage the container: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox Then just install XFCE and tiger VNC server inside it. Using VNC makes it easy to connect into a little isolated session that has its own theming, etc. vs. trying to…

comment by qbasic_forever · 2022-04-08 · in NotepadNext: A cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

Distrobox is handy for this: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox It just lets you reuse any docker image on your desktop (both podman and docker), and has some nice features like the ability to create a launcher shortcut on the host and…

comment by jcastro · 2022-03-26 · in Running GUI apps within Docker containers

Distrobox let's you do the same(using docker or podman) imo and is pretty good. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

comment by varbhat · 2022-03-26 · in Running GUI apps within Docker containers

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Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

story by varbhat · 2022-03-25 · 0 comments

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Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

story by philonoist · 2022-02-27 · 0 comments

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distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

story by 1_player · 2021-12-30 · 0 comments