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I used to be interested in this kind of thing but it turns out lxc containers are lightweight and do the isolation thing well so let's use them!

Just need something in the file manager to recognize container images and run them like an app.




What about the stereotypical non-technical relative, who you've moved to Linux (because all they do is web and email and message) to reduce your family support effort. Is it reasonable to expect them to run container and run things in that? It seems at least more support load.

This "drop this in and run it" seems a lot more promising for that use case. Similar to freezing a python app, I suppose.


It all depends on a simple interface, no reason containers couldn't be run on (double) click, or put in the main menu, etc.




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