apx VS nearly

With the advent of containerised software like Flatpak (or apx if you're adventurous) and Distrobox, running a solid LTS release like Mint has fewer drawbacks than ever.

Download the latest build from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/apx/releases/tag/continuous.

All Flatpaks can be installed as a user. For any other apps, you can compile & install apx, which lets you run many distros in full performance, host integrated containers in your home directory

Honestly, I would try asking on their github .. seems like it should be possible to run it on Silverblue and based on the description from the main project page (emphasis mine), I would think it should be ok

There is an issue with lxc as stated here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/4283 and https://github.com/Vanilla-OS/apx/issues/118

You could try using APX or abroot to install XFCE or Cinnamon; check the APX docs: https://documentation.vanillaos.org/docs/apx/

Maybe this will help https://documentation.vanillaos.org/docs/apx/

I was curious about this too, so went digging.

The immutability is handled by "nearly", created for blendOS: https://github.com/blend-os/nearly

(In turn, "nearly" is called by the "blend" package manager, e.g., "sudo nearly enter rw", "sudo nearly enter ro" - https://github.com/blend-os/blend/blob/main/blend)

At the heart of "nearly" is toggling inode flag "FS_IMMUTABLE_FL" (equivalent to "chattr +i" / "chattr -i") on each file within specified directories (currently "/usr"): https://github.com/blend-os/nearly/blob/3bb6f662818545cba1eb...

Enter blendOS. Also immutable OS, but based on Arch instead of Ubuntu (which... kinda not great for immutable unless you approach it like Valve's SteamOS due to how Arch normally wants frequent updates). Also by a famous dev, who has done projects such as Unity revival and Gamebuntu. It uses nearly which is a fork of almost. It uses Crystal Linux's jade installer which allows it to set what Desktop Environment (GUI you interact with, KDE is the one used by SteamOS while many distro defaults to Gnome due to historical and packaging issues) while for now vanillaOS only offers Gnome by default as they're working on their 'minimal' ISO for people to choose what DE they want to use and later might offer an official KDE version. Oh, and blend which is basically apx but with a few new commands like installing a DE inside a container.