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This is basically how steam on Linux works.
Windows games are run inside wine
Wine is run in a container (they call the tech pressure vessel, the version of the container most games use is called sniper)
Linux native apps are not forced into a container, except they are on steamos, so guess its coming everywhere later
The container is based on ubuntu
I think they actually are by default. Steam Linux Runtime has been around for quite awhile, and if I'm not mistaken, it's basically just a container full of either Debian or Ubuntu.