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this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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Thank you for the detailed reply, much appreciated!
Any rough edges you've encountered yet? Like using USB peripherals, or networking shenanigans? I'm assuming it's using the host network driver by default, and maybe bind mounting
/dev/bus/usbfor USB pass through?Think I'll really dig into distrobox today.
No problems so far, but I didn't try anything USB-related. Two of the more interesting programs I use it actively for are Ubuntu distrobox for Ultimate Doom Builder (level editor, works with GPU) and toolbox for natpmpc (utility for port-forwarding). I made a systemd service on my host system that calls
toolbox run natpmpc -a 1 0 tcp 60 -g "$GATEWAY" 2>/dev/nullin a loop to establish port-forwarding for my ProtonVPN connection (running on the host ofc), parses the assigned port and calls qbittorrent's web api to set forwarded port there.