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Flatpak will depend on systemd
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Systemd lets me do my fun podman containers so this is cool by me
I'm a flatpak advocate and have been wanting better permission capabilities similar to Android, so I don't really care how they do it. I've never been presented with any reason as to why people dislike systemd other than "Linux is about choice", when the choices in my eyes are like having 50 cans of the same soup at the store with slightly different ingredients and half of them are expired.
Have you tried systemd-nspawn?
No but from like two Google searches it doesn't seem to be particularly suited to my use case. I'm just running a couple services like a music server and not a particularly advanced user
It's basically a more systemd-integrated version of docker/podman. I think you could run a container without too much trouble by creating an "OCI bundle" from an existing container image and running that. But you're right it might be slightly more hassle.