I use concepts of games I like. Right now Alan Wake and Pacific Drive are the two of them.
But when I started to be more interested in networking and installed openwrt on my router, I was more infatuated by Pacific Drive:
I am no expert. But I think there is an ‘easier’ way too manage this with an overlay filesystem.
Have an immutable base with all permissions set. When a session is started have it be done in an in-memory overlay. On logout drop the overlay.
This might be easier if you don’t want to rely on cronjobs. But as I have no experience myself setting this up… ‘easier’ should be taken with a grain of salt. I just took inspiration from docker.
That is awesome. I prefer podman, despite what my list might suggest.
I work somewhere that doesn’t have licensing with Docker Inc. And I work on a Mac. With Docker desktop out of the picture, I got some experience with the alternatives. I know this post is about the native implementation and not the VM one, but I just wanted to add my 2 cents:
Alternatives run by me: Podman, Rancher Desktop, Finch
Results:
You know what, next device I can (host)name will be the Muse. :D