Ananicy Cpp VS distrobox

For anyone using CPU or IO intensive programs, you can also keep using your desktop, with Cachy OS kernel or Bore scheduler/kernel and Ananicy or ananicy-cpp. Happy gentoo user here, compiling for hours while listening to music/browsing without hiccups.

Btw, anyone have experience with the Zen kernel on Pop! Or know of a good ppa for https://gitlab.com/ananicy-cpp/ananicy-cpp?

You don't have to anyway. This is a rudimentary and possibly ignorant reimplementation of an established tool, ananicy-cpp. If you want the same (or better) functionality, that tool already exists and is easy to install and use.

If you are interested,there is a program called ananicy-cpp where it set nice values automatically for each app,but this not improve battery life,only prioritize on cpu load.

You can try run ananicy-cpp,is a program that prioritize other programs,say if you are compiling something and gaming,the compiling will have the lowest priority to avoid stuttering the game,and the game will have much priority.

There is a improved version called ananicy-cpp written in C++ instead of python if you are interested.

I strongly recommend just switching the Dev environment over to Linux and taking advantage of tools like "distrobox" and "toolbx".

https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

https://containertoolbx.org/

It is sorta like Vagrant, but instead of using virtualbox virtual machines you use podman containers. This way you get to use OCI images for your "dev environment" that integrates directly into your desktop.

https://podman.io/

There is some challenges related to usermode networking for non-root-managed controllers and desktop integration has some additional complications. But besides that it has almost no overhead and you can have unfettered access to things like GPUs.

Also it is usually pretty easy to convert your normal docker or kubernetes containers over to something you can run on your desktop.

Also it is possible to use things like Kubernetes pods definitions to deploy sets of containers with podman and manage it with systemd and such things. So you can have "clouds of containers" that your dev container needs access to locally.

If there is a corporate need for window-specific applications then running Windows VMs or doing remote applications over RDP is a possible work around.

If everything you are targeting as a deployment is going to be Linux anything then it doesn't make a lot of sense to jump through a bunch of hoops and cause a bunch of headaches just to avoid having it as workstation OS.

You can check it out at: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

That seems more like Distrobox to me(?) https://distrobox.it/

Regarding the stability issue on a dev machine - you may be interested in playing with one of the immutable-os distros, such as SilverBlue (fedora based).

The high-level take-away is you can't break your actual OS since it's root filesystem is read-only, and you use "pet" containers (on docker, podman, whatever) to do your work in. Applications are either sandboxed via Flatpak, or installed/run inside your pet containers. If your pet container dies, you cry about it for a moment, and when you're ready you get a new one - your actual os and other containers remain unaffected.

I use distrobox[1] to create/run the pet containers.

[1] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox

Distrobox is a tool that enables us to try Linux distro CLI, including their package manager. This requires a containerization tool (e.g., Docker). In Windows, this can be achieved using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

I use containerized versions of things, ubuntu and chainguard images mostly.

You can always create containers with init if that's how you want to do that though. Some distros publish images that come that way: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505448 ... https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...

Yes, you can do that but I've seen others use something like distrobox to run linux inside of SteamOS: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/steamdeck_guide.md

For such cases you might use something like this: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox