I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...
Hi there - I’m trying to make use of flatpaks, but keeping them isolated from my host (as I need to experiment with a bunch of settings and I don’t want to bork my host environment. Again.)...
Distrobox, by default, doesn’t provide much isolation/sandboxing - it’s main aim is desktop integration and filesystem transparency. So if you’re trying to use it for isolation, it’s a bad idea.
However, you can create a new container which will isolate your filesystem and prevent such conflicts, using the –unshare-devsys flag. (if you want FULL isolation though, use the –unshare-all flag).
Then enter the container and install the flatpak app as usual.
I just tested this on Fedora uBlue and an Arch container and it works fine, didn’t have to unmount anything.
Audio works. Not sure how though, –unshare-devsys is supposed to not share the hosts devices, but I guess audio devices are an exception.
The full isolation flags are:
<span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-devsys: do not share host devices and sysfs dirs from host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-ipc: do not share ipc namespace with host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-netns: do not share the net namespace with host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-process: do not share process namespace with host
</span><span style="color:#323232;">--unshare-all: activate all the unshare flags below
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Hi! I’m currently using XFCE on my laptop, I was previously using Compify as my compositor (XFWM is quite rough), but stopped when I noticed I could no longer get through the day on one charge. My battery life doubled when switching back to XFWM. So I was wondering if anyone knows of any X compositors that have a focus on...
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I finally nuked windows
I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I...
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