"I use Linux... a lot. I use it for just about everything I do. Oftentimes, I use multiple instances of Linux. How do I do that? If you want to go the virtual machine route, there's VirtualBox. However, if you'd like to simplify things even more (without having to download multi GB ISO files), you can take the path of containers."
"Distrobox is a nifty tool that allows you to easily spin up different Linux distributions from your desktop computer. Say, for example, your desktop runs Ubuntu and you want to try Fedora. You could spin up a Fedora container with Distrobox and experiment with it. And although Distrobox is a command line tool, you can also install GUI apps and then export them to your desktop."
Distrobox creates containers from centralized images to run different Linux distributions on a Linux desktop. Users can spin up distributions (for example, Fedora) from an Ubuntu host, install GUI applications inside containers, and export those GUI apps to the host desktop. Distrobox operates without modifying the host operating system, so containerized testing does not harm the host. Installation requires a Linux desktop user with sudo privileges; example commands include sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install distrobox docker-compose -y. Containers avoid downloading multi‑GB ISO files and offer a simpler alternative to full virtual machines like VirtualBox.
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