Unprivileged container to run wine/steam on slackware64 with no multilib
by giomat from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FVXV)
So until now I was using flatpaks to install steam and wine stuff on my slackware64-current, this in order to avoid installing and maintaining multilib.
But today I found this cute little portable unprivileged container: Conty
The prepackaged release is based on arch and contains quite a lot of stuff: steam, wine staging, gcc, pcmanfm... but you can roll your own as minimal as you like according to the README.
It's also sandboxable with bubblewrap if you are a fan of this feature.
I briefly tested it and it ran my diablo 2 like a champ, so I'm definitely thinking about replacing the flatpaks with this.
The container requires unprivileged user containers to be enabled on the kernel and I found instructions on how to do so in Debian and Arch because they are disabled by default, but I don't recall setting anything specific here on slackware in the past, so it seems to run fine out-of-the-box, I hope someone can confirm this.
But today I found this cute little portable unprivileged container: Conty
The prepackaged release is based on arch and contains quite a lot of stuff: steam, wine staging, gcc, pcmanfm... but you can roll your own as minimal as you like according to the README.
It's also sandboxable with bubblewrap if you are a fan of this feature.
I briefly tested it and it ran my diablo 2 like a champ, so I'm definitely thinking about replacing the flatpaks with this.
The container requires unprivileged user containers to be enabled on the kernel and I found instructions on how to do so in Debian and Arch because they are disabled by default, but I don't recall setting anything specific here on slackware in the past, so it seems to run fine out-of-the-box, I hope someone can confirm this.