Containers

What are containers?

Containers are isolated environments for software to run. Bazzite utilizes containers in a software context for applications that either run better in a container environment or are not available in the Bazaar app store.

Distrobox

Distrobox allows users to run other minimal versions Linux operating systems within their own containerized environment with access to their own repositories. Real world examples include applications that only have Linux support for Ubuntu and ship a .deb file on their website. An Ubuntu container can be created with DistroShelf and then the .deb file can be installed within the container and exported so it appears in your applications.

Quadlet is specifically used for running services like media servers, game servers, etc. Quadlet is advanced in comparison to other package formats and relies heavily on system-level tooling that is pre-installed on Bazzite. There is no quadlet command and requires declaratively creating services with it using systemd units and Podman.