Option to Automatically Dockerize Games

[L1lith]

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I have been wishing there was more to done to address the lack of security when it comes to desktop applications. I think Docker does this really well. It would be nice if there was a feature that users could enable where playnite would automatically create and run each application in their own docker environment. There might need to be some work done to say integrate the apps with steam, but honestly a lot of apps could just as easily run offline (this is better for privacy anyways, and the dockerization could be disabled on an app-to-app basis)

Many singleplayer games don't need expansive FS access and networking access (where they could be subject to fingerprinting or other more nefarious things if the developer wished)

Another way to aid in docker compatibility would allow people to customize the Dockerfile that launches the app or even have a managed repo of Dockerfiles for common apps.

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[L1lith]

To add some more evidence of where I think this could be useful, I was recently playing DOOM Eternal. This game provides no in-game offline mode, and the only way to play it offline is to physically disconnect your internet or run the entirety of steam in offline mode. It forces you to sign in with a bethesda account and link it to your steam.

Playnite could force the game to run in a docker environment with no access to steam and no access to the internet (I tried shutting down doom through my firewall and it didn't seem to work, I believe it was accessing the internet through the steam API though I could have misconfigured something). This would be nice so that you would have to turn steam into offline mode just to play the game without signing in

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[JosefNemec]

I personally think this is very niche and specific feature and should be instead made as a 3rd party extension.

[JosefNemec]

Closing based on my previous comment, this would quite a lot of effort to implement for something that majority of people would not use. Maybe somebody will make this as an extension.