dockerfiles VS termux-docker

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk... is the one I remember, a bit old but still useful to see how she does it.

Seems super painful and indirected for a nebulous gain to me, but find your joy however you want I guess

Jess does some awesome stuff and this is literally what you asked for. hollywood

mildly relevant https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desktop/

Some of my day-to-day software.

After knowing that saved Chrome passwords and cookies in Linux are not protected against malicious dependencies in our development environment or other apps in our system, I decided to run my core apps in Docker containers, where their data is not accessible without sudo, and a personal understanding of where stuff is being saved.

These docker containers are also an improved version of https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles/

Contrary to the project above, docker-workspaces runs Chrome in a sandbox, encrypts keys with the help of an also dockerized gnome-keychain, and works in tandem with pulseaudio, so you can use wired headphones (i still need to add some dependencies for it to work with bluetooth headphones).

Thank you. As someone who uses containers a lot (even to run local programs, shout out to https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...) this makes some sense to me.

I'm a little way into the Nix Pills document (https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/why-you-should-give-it-a-...) which seems to start the explanation from a place where I can understand.

If this is https://github.com/termux/termux-docker, then you should be able to specify user on command line using UID. Like docker run -it --user 1000 .... Note that Termux-in-Docker is not same as Termux and is very stripped down on functionality (e.g. you don't have a proper DNS inside). Don't use it in production.

Binaries in Termux aren't special. You can run them on PC as well, considering you have suitable execution environment (e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-docker).

Shell and any other command line utilities are Linux programs. They are executed directly by Linux kernel and do not require Android OS to be running. In general, you don't need Android at all to be able to run utilities as soon as you have some basic libs from it (libc, libm + dynamic linker), here is a Termux environment packaged as Docker image to use on PC: https://github.com/termux/termux-docker.

In Docker you can use https://github.com/termux/termux-docker, however don't forget to check the #KnownIssues in readme.