I’m used to using Linux from the terminal. I have a new machine which I plan to use mostly headless but would occasionally like to run a desktop environment and play games with GPU acceleration. I know I don’t have to launch the desktop environment on startup, but I was wondering if it’s possible to have that entire portion containerized, like an instance in LXD.

I am trying Bazzite right now, I really like the idea of layering on top an immutable base. That’s close to what I want. If I understand correctly, I could have a different layer for the headless part to keep them totally separate, but I’d have to do restarts to switch from one to the other.

I also think NixOS could also be what I want, just with a steeper learning curve.

I’m wondering if anyone has already set something like this up? It would be helpful to read about what software people have for this and their experiences using that.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    11·
    9 months ago

    Have you ever heard of qubes os? The idea of it is absolutely every system component is containerised

    I’m sure if anything has a way to achieve what you want it’s that

    • scratchandgameTiếng Việt
      2·
      9 months ago

      Qubes os does not run xfce in a vm I think?

      It actually run everything in a vm, not a container.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        Depending on the use case I don’t think it really makes much difference

        I’m not sure whether it can specifically containerise the DE but it’s worth investigating I think