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Open source Windows obviously. https://reactos.org/

All these recent Windows to Linux converts, whining about how Linux should be more like Windows, should be going to ReactOS. They want open source Windows, not open source Unix.

I'm aware. I said, "basis", not "uses".

I usually put, Pop!_OS JSYK.

Same concept. Flatpak is based on bubblewrap, which was based off another tool that was based on chroot.

Edit: Looks like Flatpak is working towards adopting a different (newer) feature that allows some containerization features at the user level, without requiring chroot super user level.

I really think its just not that common. There are ways to do this for the few and not pollute the OS for the many. Steam does it for their use case. If it were a more common of a need, then I would expect distro maintainers to take care of it. The same way they did for 32bit libraries back in the day. When is the last time you had to install a 32bit distro along side your 64bit distro so you could run 32bit applications? Sometimes I need a bleeding edge build of an application. I run a stable distro. So build the application myself or install a quick chroot These days there is distrobox that makes it even easier. There are solutions. Easy from my perspective. That's why I think, if this was such a common need, distro maintainers would provide a simple solution (automatically done for you).

The linux way to handle it is with a chroot. Used to do this back in the day to get 32bit libraries on a 64bit distro that didn't include 32bit libraries. chroot is the basis for modern containerization technologies. These days, I usually use it for bleeding edge application builds that don't have a build for my distro, yet. Distrobox makes it pretty simple. With distrobox, you can install the application you need in the OS that supports the application you want, then just map the binary into your OS.

See here: https://distrobox.it/useful_tips/#export-to-the-host

I gamed on it when Proton magically made it so games I bought on Steam worked. Otherwise I just gamed on an Xbox before that. I only recently switched to popos, (still gaming on it). I started on Slackware 3.4 and switched to Ubuntu in 2006-2007. I think as long as you aren't on the LTS version, you should be good. In any case, it's not a permanent decision and seems like every distro is crazy fast at installing these days. Worth a go whatever you try or where ever you land.

It's a homograph, dude. You pick the flavor that has the DE you like. If they mean something specific, they specify.

Cognitive Bias or My Side Bias.

I was just trying to be gracious. You are citing a misnomer. The water is free because of competition, not because of any law that forces the restaurant owners to give the tap water away for free.

Really? Which states? Pretty sure there are no state or federal laws. County maybe? I do know in California, it's a state law that restaurant customers must first request the water, before they can be provide the free tap water. I think it's just a misnomer that some states require free tap water for customers.

Microsoft agrees. Azure Linux is getting more and more beefed up all the time. Soon it will be a full fledged consumer OS and not just for Azure containers.