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Distrobox is such a cool utility! Tried it out today and don't see myself switching distros now for a long time :)
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I use Distrobox with my NixOS machine for when I need AppImage support (or some random binary that isn't equipped for Nix's weird ass directory layout) and it's amazing! Pretty much native speed, and when I'm done with it I can just wipe it out. Perfect!
Distrobox is great and I also used on Fedora Silverblue before switching to NixOS (with similar use cases).
For running AppImages there's also appimage-run on NixOS. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Appimage
I'm aware, but the appimage I run (Slippi Launcher) will run other appimages, and appimage-run can't handle that, since it extracts the appimage, then runs the contents, but it won't automatically do that for other appimages that are run.
Which is why I used a Distrobox and it was awesome, worked like a charm. I used Arch previously, and I just made an Arch distrobox and it worked perfectly.