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I think you as yet don't quite understand the full beauty of immutable distros. Running things in distroboxes, yeah even other distros, is not a bug, it's a feature (really) because you cannot break your main OS with a distrobox. As a developer it's a godsend, finnicky AI project that needs a specific version of python and CUDA drivers and only has instructions for Arch ? That's a distrobox, spin it up, play with it, archive it for later, put it away.
There's tiers in Bazzite, for GUI apps, flatpak, if what you want isn't there, it's in a distrobox Arch in AUR and you can integrate it as an application into the main OS. Stuff that truly needs system level access, like zsh and intel-undervolt gets layered into the main OS with rpm-ostree. There's security benefits as well like SELinux, but this post has gone on long enough.
It is so not an iPhone.
Distrobox is not a feature of immutable distros. It runs just fine on Debian. As does flatpak.
Duh, but it shines in immutable. Enjoy your debian, I like it too, for servers.
It "shines"? It's the same thing.