Have a look at https://distrobox.it/. It allows you to tightly integrate containers into your desktop, including accelerated graphics, some devices, your homedir, etc. It can even automatically install desktop shortcuts. (You can disable the integrations of course)

Furthermore, distrobox allows you to define the list of packages to be installed, see:

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/distrobox-assemble.md

Or new possibilities… See: UV, pixi, hatch, ruff, polar, pyarrow, pydantic, data fusion, deltalake, fastuuid, granian, Robyn…

I’m not a c expert and I’m not comfortable in writing python extensions in C…

But with rust you have the compiler that, if you constraint yourself to the safe part of the rust language, is checking for you for several stupid issues. In rust, I can focus on fixing logical and other implementation errors. Coming from python I feel much more at home with rust (async, yield, iterator, generator, closure, match, walrus, etc) than with C.

Io mi trovo bene con: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/carrion