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You can't completely remove distrobox image and contents later?
By default it is just the packages and dependencies that are removed. Your /home/user/ directory is still mounted just the same. This puts all of your config and dot files in all the normal places. If you install another distro like Arch on a Fedora base, it also installs all of the extra root package locations for arch and these get left on the host system after removing the distrobox instance. So yeah it still makes a big mess.
You can mount any directory you want as the “home” directory of a given container with distrobox, it just defaults to using your home directory.