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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was my guess, from others' context. Hits almost all of the good points.

How containerized though? Could it be a replacement for a docker server "farm" on a single machine or is it know for apps to simply use locally?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Good question. Docker can be used for orchestration which I‘m pretty sure is a lot more than flatpak is designed for. So if this interests you (I‘m fine with docker) feel free to try it out and update me.