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(Famous last words of a distrohopper)
Thank you for sharing this! It was just the thing I needed to get a project setup. Toolbox couldn’t pull the version of Fedora I needed to use for whatever reason, but Distrobox works great and has a much wider selection of distributions.
How does Distrobox compare to VanillaOS?
What is distrobox?
It’s essentially running a linux container on top of your own system. Which means you can use the toolkit of those distros ( for example the package manager of that system) to install apps from their repos, even gui apps. But those containers also has access to your original filesystem so be careful how you use them. Might want to watch Brodie’s video on it.
Removed by mod
Stinky proprietary os
i couldn’t figure out where the binaries for their systems are kept and that’s really the one thing keeping me from having a great time with distrobox
Brodie had a video on it, might want to check it out.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=FhW-3PPldAg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I use Distrobox with my NixOS machine for when I need AppImage support (or some random binary that isn’t equipped for Nix’s weird ass directory layout) and it’s amazing! Pretty much native speed, and when I’m done with it I can just wipe it out. Perfect!
Distrobox is great and I also used on Fedora Silverblue before switching to NixOS (with similar use cases).
For running AppImages there’s also appimage-run on NixOS. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Appimage
I’m aware, but the appimage I run (Slippi Launcher) will run other appimages, and appimage-run can’t handle that, since it extracts the appimage, then runs the contents, but it won’t automatically do that for other appimages that are run.
Which is why I used a Distrobox and it was awesome, worked like a charm. I used Arch previously, and I just made an Arch distrobox and it worked perfectly.
