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Its a container tool using Podman or Docker.
See a video on "container vs. Virtual machine".
What Distrobox does is downloading container images or any distro basically. It uses your system Kernel still, but all the libraries and packages are from the distro.
I.e. you can install Arch (AUR too), Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Opensuse packages on any distro.
The only thing not working are Flatpak and Snap as they need systemd
Darn, I do like to use flatpaks and occasionally snaps.... I know I know, most people hate them lol. But the big question for going the VM route is, do the distros I load up remember all my settings, configs, programs, etc? I want them to be like actual desktop distros where everything stays in tact and I'm not resetting everutime I boot up a VM iso
Yes they work completely normal. In theory the allocated space also just occupies what is actually used
And if you use Flatpak and snap just install it on your main system?
So this images will always remain the same as I make tweaks and download programs and such? And if I use flatpaks from my main distro, how would that install things on my VM distros?
A VM is like a container but also with its own Kernel. KVM shares the resources tightly with your systems kernel, so it has best performance afaik.
Its its own system, persistent storage, no interaction except if you choose to with spice integration, network, usb, GPU or filesystem passthrough
But would you need flatpak and snap with aur
I guess not haha