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Re: Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments

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Hello!! All of your concerns have been addressed in a new commit of mine which is available to all of you now.

Added GPU pass‑through, engine‑agnostic containers (DEVBOX_ENGINE for Podman/rootless), and alternate config filenames to avoid Jetify collisions—while keeping a tiny, CLI‑first flow that works outside VS Code.

https://github.com/itzCozi/devbox/commit/d05c8980db7fb907f31...

Re: Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments

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This has been my experience. I don't use VSCode and every time I've attempted to play with devcontainers I've just given up and gone back to a docker compose file. I love that they tried to extract the feature out into a stand alone thing, but the juice doesn't seem to be worth the squeeze yet.

Devcontainers work nicely with docker compose. It's the only way I use it... Really nice to have it all run containers. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/create-dev-...

Cool! I haven't seen this feature. Does it add some nice features beyond what a compose file could offer?

Re: Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments

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I am not affiliated with Microsoft and I anal but I think dev box is fine. What we want to avoid is the term dev containers. https://containers.dev/

> I anal There has to be a better way to phrase this

Yes, one would think it should have been presented as ANAL - which I think is the preferred way to present an acronym.

Re: Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments

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FYI there's a well-starred, corporate-backed, similar functionality, Nix-based product with the same name: https://github.com/jetify-com/devbox https://www.jetify.com/devbox

That looks similar to Flox, which is also Nix-based. https://github.com/flox/flox
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