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Gradience, Flatseal, Loupe Image Viewer, and Resources running on Ubuntu 16.04

Firefox 118.0.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04

Door Knocker, Collision, and Cartridges running on Ubuntu 16.04

ASHPD Demo running on Ubuntu 16.04, showing a notification through XDG portals

According to Door Knocker, almost half of the portals are unavailable on Ubuntu 16.04, compared to only one unavailable on Fedora 39 with GNOME, which means Flatpaks running here may have more limited capabilities than usual.

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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds a bit like docker and its containers?

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes and no. It's much better suited for desktop applications. Try to run something playing audio in Docker. It's doable but not pleasant in any way.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It’s certainly doable to run desktop apps in containers, have you tried Distrobox?

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No, I didn't. Looks interesting. Not something I'm looking for right now but I'll keep it in mind.