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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sandboxed rather than containerised I think.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

what was the difference for those of us who dont know, like andrew over here ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sandboxed typically restricts a program from being able to read/write to various areas (think an app isn't allowed to use the network, or access USB devices, or it's only allowed access to a certain directory in the filesystem).

Containerised is a way of virtualising an app/apps so that they can be easily distributed to run once or thousands. They can and are also sandboxed to different degrees.