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I wonder how well it integrates with hardware. Arch with the pacman packages has been the only distro where I could get ROCm working reliably. I'd love to make a "ROCm container" and dump all that mess into it's own sandbox.
In fact, the thing I really want is more of a "Qubes but not for security tryhards" (aka I can actually use Wayland AND game on it) where everything gets it's own container mainly for organizational purposes, but something like this sounds like a fair compromise.
Could you do this with something like Distrobox?
IIRC Apx is using distrobox under the hood. So in that case yes.
Again - I have no idea how well it's hardware support is. I assume 3d accel and whatnot would be fine because it's widely used, but dunno if anyone tried running ROCm on it.
The source is reddit, but I didn't want to send more traffic there: https://www.reddit.com/r/steamdeck_linux/comments/xltere/rocm_finally_installed_via_distrobox/