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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Can I run a different GPU driver in distrobox ? (lemmings.world)

submitted 10 months ago by gunpachi@lemmings.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I don't want to change drivers on my host Distro as I want to game on it. I'm currently using the open source amdgpu drivers for my rx 6600.

The idea is to use the distrobox containers for running software like oogabooga text-chat-webui and stable diffusion, fooocus etc.

I don't know if that works but I thought I'd ask.

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The driver runs in the kernel, distrobox still uses the host kernel as it is container based so no, you can not run two different drivers on host and in distrobox. That wouldn't even work in a VM though unless you have a second GPU you pass through to the VM. How do you imagine one piece of hardware to be simultaneously controlled by two different drivers?

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

It seems highly likely they are actually talking about userland driver, not kernel driver