using Podman with Distrobox and Debian stable
Podman is similar to Docker - it is a daemonless engine designed to run containers.
Distrobox is a wrapper (collection of scripts) to tightly integrate Podman containers with your host OS.
tl;dr this basically sets up MATLAB within a Debian inside a container and forwards the GUI windows to the host. Thanks to Distrobox, we also share the home directory, and can thus smoothly work within directory of the host OS.
But why?