• biribiri11@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    From what I gather, it’s very similar.

    They are both just wrappers for podman(/docker). Distrobox is more feature rich, and is far better documented, but is closer to a collection of bash scripts rather than a fully cohesive program. Toolbx is… definitely something. Their only real claim to fame is being less “janky”? IDK, it reeks of NIH, and in my experience, it’s a lot more fragile than distrobox (as in, I’ve had containers just become randomly inoperable in that I can’t enter them after a bit).

    If you want to be pedantic, technically, distrobox is a fork of toolbx before it was rewritten.