Distrobox uses bind mounts by default to integrate with the host: X11 and Wayland sockets for display, PulseAudio/PipeWire sockets for audio, /dev/dri for GPU acceleration, and /dev/shm for shared memory. On NVIDIA systems it relies on the standard NVIDIA container toolkit, while AMD/Intel GPUs just work with Mesa. Compared to plain Docker, where you usually have to manually mount X11/Wayland sockets, Pulse/PA sockets, /dev/shm, and GPU devices, Distrobox automates all of this so GUI, audio, and hardware-accelerated apps run at near-native efficiency out of the box. Toolbox works the same way but is more tailored for Fedora/rpm-ostree systems, while Distrobox is distro-agnostic and more flexible.
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