Same here. It's a great tool but I've never found a real-world situation where I actually need it.

That has to be the most German piece of software in existence

Oh thanks, I'll check it out.

There's also Brewtarget.

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From a user perspective, Distrobox is a tool that lets you "spin up any distro inside your terminal".

You can basically create a mini Linux environment of any distro that you can access through the terminal. You can set it to share your home folder, our create a new home folder just for that mini environment.

Behind the scenes Distrobox is creating and managing containers through Podman or Docker. You could technically achieve the same thing by manually setting up Podman containers, Distrobox just makes it very easy to create and maintain those containers with the correct permissions. It also has useful tools where you could install an app in a Distrobox container, but then add that app to your host OS app list.

This makes it especially useful for immutable OSs. Instead of adding packages to your base OS, which should be kept as minimal as possible, you can just install them in a Distrobox, so your host's root filesystem is unaffected.

It's for anybody, incredible tool.

Yes. I run VS Code in an Ubuntu distrobox, with the electron wayland flags. Works real nice. KDE Wayland btw.

I run zfs on my (two) Debian boxes (a thinkpad x1 and a home server). Installing it as the root filesystem was a bit tricky but once it’s done it has been flawless for me. I run the server using 2 ssd in mirror for /etc and all those, and then a couple disks in raidz for data. When one of the root disks died I just swapped it and re synced and was up and running in not time. Unfortunately the laptop only has a single ssd so if that dies I have to reinstall and restore from a backup.

The cool thing is that I can just take a snapshot before messing around and the restore if anything breaks. It has been a really nice experience and I recommend it! I know it’s not the same as an immutable distro, and I tried silverblue but it’s too different from what I’m used to :-)

I tried running the tgz a few months ago. It needed a shitload of deprecated python dependancies, I'm not well versed in python so after the 10th pip install I gave up.

Version 4 is unfortunately closed source and paid.

I had a quick look at the PKGSRC on AUR. It uses QtWebKit which is the biggest stumbling block, given that most or perhaps even all distributions killed that for security reasons. I recently found out that an "AI and automation" company forked and revived QtWebKit, so there is a tiny chance distros will package it again but don't hold your breath. There was a promising fork once and I'd guess there will be an attitude by packagers that they've fallen for a fork before and that never got off the ground.

You could probably use alien to convert the deb to an rpm. Or just unpack the tgz on github and run it: https://github.com/314r/joliebulle/releases/tag/3.7.3

Or just use toolbox.