I am freaking out on how well distrobox is working for me. I buy a lot of games on itch.io and GOG, and neither have a flatpak. However, installing an Ubuntu container (max compatibility) and launching games from there just works. Okay, I have yet to install a GOG game, but it the Itch client works then what won't?

I am so excited. Containers are so fun. I guess arch would be easier, but whatevs.

    • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      That would be so fun I am buzzing with excitement. I am not talking facetiously either. I am out in the cold as I type this, happy and quivering.

      I cannot wait to get home and try it out!

      • alt@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I cannot wait to get home and try it out!

        Please consider reporting back after you've tried it; I'd love to read your experiences.

        • DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          *removed externally hosted image*

          So it turns out, I cannot use my NVIDIA card using distrobox. I guess it only works with AMD?

          Anyways, gaming using Bazzite is a dead end for me. I still find Fedora Silverblue super fun to use, and I think I will just run Steam + Lutris using Flatpaks. I was wondering if distrobox would somehow allow better performance, but I don't understand the technology well enough to even make those presumption. I see that this image is used a lot on Steam Deck, which I also don't understand why (as opposed to having everything native).

          Anyways, I can still game well on Silverblue. Baldur's Gate 3 runs okay. So, that means I am fine, hah!

          The only gripe I have, which is just my stupidity, is that I have way of using Mozilla VPN. I tried to run it on an Ubuntu container, but I must be doing something wrong because it does not launch. Maybe I need to look into podman more closely, or maybe I am missing some graphical dependencies that is assumed to exist on a DE. I shall keep trying.

          • alt@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Thank you for reporting back! Much appreciated!

            So it turns out, I cannot use my NVIDIA card using distrobox. I guess it only works with AMD?

            Interesting. Unfortunately, I don't own an Nvidia device. Therefore, I can't tackle it myself. Distrobox should allow the use of Nvidia, but I'm unaware if this applies to the bazzite-arch container as well. The picture you shared and the link to its FAQ-page (found below) do suggest otherwise, unfortunately...

            I was wondering if distrobox would somehow allow better performance

            FWIW, I've always experienced better performance inside the bazzite-arch distrobox container, at least compared to Flatpak*.

            I see that this image is used a lot on Steam Deck, which I also don’t understand why (as opposed to having everything native).

            Because the distro image it's used in conjunction with, Bazzite, is Fedora-based, while Steam OS is based on Arch. Bazzite is Fedora-based in the first place, because Arch doesn't officially have any plans for 'immutable' distros yet. As for the remaining distros, only Fedora and NixOS (see Jovian-NixOS) have a sufficiently mature and suitable platform at this point in time.

            maybe I am missing some graphical dependencies

            This happens way more often than you might expect. Even the so-called 'toolbox' containers from Distrobox miss a lot of packages required to support software graphically. Consider running it inside a terminal and pay attention to error codes etc; those might/should help you resolve the issue. Sometimes it helps to explicitly use the -v or --verbose option to ensure that the program actually communicates what's happening.