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Can I run a different GPU driver in distrobox ?
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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?
It seems highly likely they are actually talking about userland driver, not kernel driver