That’s one of those things I’m trying to figure out. They’re actually a bit more complicated than your regular distro. They’re not that bad, but my mind is not there yet. I need some time to dig into it and learn things. I’m definitely switching eventually.
As someone who started with Slackware in the 90s, it took me a while too.
I switched over to Bazzite from Windows 10 on my main PC because I wanted something I could game on. But, even though most of my games work great on it, I haven’t played that many because I ended up just happy to have a Linux system I could use for projects I’d been putting off.
It’s true that if you’re used to a plain Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora system, you have to do some things differently. But, in exchange you basically never have to worry about installing a package because there’s been a vulnerability discovered or something.
The happy medium I found is using distrobox on Bazzite. Inside a distrobox, you can use apt or whatever to manage the software you want. You can even export things from the distrobox to the main OS – like, say you installed a GUI editor in the distrobox, you can have it available as if it were a normal app in the main immutable OS.
Distrobox might help you switch if you’re feeling hesitant. OTOH, if you want to fully grok the system before switching, or want to be able to customize the images you’re installing, that can take a while to figure out.
Man, distrobox confused the shit out of me the other day. I admit, I didn’t feel like digging and learning it. I just let it go once I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I want to install bazzite in a VM and mess with it for a while until I made sure I know what’s going and also make sure that I can get all of my programs. It’s going to be all flatpak and I am not a big fan of flatpaks. I know people swear by them, but I avoid them like the plague
Why don’t you like flatpaks? I’ve basically never had any issues with them, but maybe I will in the future.
As for distrobox, what’s the confusion? Were you trying to do something advanced? Or, was there an issue with mapping things between the host and distrobox? I haven’t really pushed the envelope, but the only issue I’ve had is that I wanted my shell history to be different between the distrobox and the host, so I had to tweak my zsh startup files to detect if I was in a distrobox and save history in a different place.
Immutable distros are a great invention, and soon I’ll be switching to one, once I figure out a couple of things.
Immutables are too hard for me. I prefer the simplicity of apt.
That’s one of those things I’m trying to figure out. They’re actually a bit more complicated than your regular distro. They’re not that bad, but my mind is not there yet. I need some time to dig into it and learn things. I’m definitely switching eventually.
As someone who started with Slackware in the 90s, it took me a while too.
I switched over to Bazzite from Windows 10 on my main PC because I wanted something I could game on. But, even though most of my games work great on it, I haven’t played that many because I ended up just happy to have a Linux system I could use for projects I’d been putting off.
It’s true that if you’re used to a plain Debian / Ubuntu / Fedora system, you have to do some things differently. But, in exchange you basically never have to worry about installing a package because there’s been a vulnerability discovered or something.
The happy medium I found is using distrobox on Bazzite. Inside a distrobox, you can use apt or whatever to manage the software you want. You can even export things from the distrobox to the main OS – like, say you installed a GUI editor in the distrobox, you can have it available as if it were a normal app in the main immutable OS.
Distrobox might help you switch if you’re feeling hesitant. OTOH, if you want to fully grok the system before switching, or want to be able to customize the images you’re installing, that can take a while to figure out.
Man, distrobox confused the shit out of me the other day. I admit, I didn’t feel like digging and learning it. I just let it go once I didn’t know what the hell I was doing. I want to install bazzite in a VM and mess with it for a while until I made sure I know what’s going and also make sure that I can get all of my programs. It’s going to be all flatpak and I am not a big fan of flatpaks. I know people swear by them, but I avoid them like the plague
Why don’t you like flatpaks? I’ve basically never had any issues with them, but maybe I will in the future.
As for distrobox, what’s the confusion? Were you trying to do something advanced? Or, was there an issue with mapping things between the host and distrobox? I haven’t really pushed the envelope, but the only issue I’ve had is that I wanted my shell history to be different between the distrobox and the host, so I had to tweak my zsh startup files to detect if I was in a distrobox and save history in a different place.
Aliases.making.probably
Definitely enjoy using my computer and less managing my computer. Trying new things and tinkering is much more liberating with immutables.
Also, not tinkering when you don’t want to tinker.