Distrobox in practice

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Should work fine, bazzite even has a premade one, try it:

distrobox create --nvidia --image ghcr.io/ublue-os/bazzite-arch --name bazzite-arch

Out of curiosity what's the reason to run games in a distrobox container instead of just running them in the host os?

The immediate advantage is that you could get newer mesa in your distrobox but continue to use a stable one in the host so that it doesn't fuck up your more important work. I switched to using containers or flatpaks for everything on my system a while ago. I have a distrobox for running odd games I get off Itch and stuff like Steam/Bottles is from flatpak. I even run Silverblue now and haven't had any major issues for about 2 years at this point. Hell I was switching between GNOME 45 Beta and 44 Stable like it was no big deal.

I'm using the proprietary drivers anyway, afaik Mesa still isn't as performant as Nvidia is it?