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Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS
That seems more like Distrobox to me(?) https://distrobox.it/
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Windows 11 now comes with its own adware
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
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Tools for Linux Distro Hoppers
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)
- Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal
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Fedora Atomic Desktops
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_...
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Raspberry Pi is manufacturing 70K Raspberry Pi 5s per week
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505448 ... https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...
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Operating System?
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
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How much will I screw up my system after installing Merkuro Calendar (KDE Akonadi application), formerly called Kalendar, on GNOME?
For such cases you might use something like this: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
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Battery consumption of using remote development with WSL2?
Btw #3: Depending on what the user is trying to accomplish, e.g. maybe to make WSL(2) itself more of a "subsystem" than a "container engine", using something like Distrobox or nsbox.dev can be a good idea (along with Docker or Podman in Distrobox's case; the other one uses systemd-nspawn).
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Cannot run containers with Distrobox
1. Find here in "Containers Distros" section the distro image that you want to install ("Toolbox" versions are better because they are configured for Distrobox) and get it URL: https://distrobox.it/compatibility/#containers-distros 2. Use that URL to create Distrobox: distrobox create -i registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:39 -n fedora_1_39 3. Enter Distrobox fedora_1_39: distrobox enter fedora_1_39 4. You are already in Distrobox console. Look at the name in console, it should be include the container name. 5. To exit Distrobox: exit 6. If you run: distrobox list you will see all distroboxes on the system. You will also see that distrobox that we exited is still running. 7. To stop distrobox use commands: distrobox stop fedora_1_39
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Vala Programming Language
There are a lot of third-party Linux apps built with GTK4/Libadwaita. If you just to to https://flathub.org and click on random apps a lot of them will use GTK.
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Saving Linux Desktop. Unifying repositories is the only way
I would recommend taking a look at Flatpak
- Flathub – The Linux App Store
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useful linux/android software sources
flathub flatpak format apps/games for linux desktop, does not require any specific linux distribution just that flatpak is present on the system.
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Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session
Which X clients are these? You didn't name any so let's just look at some of the popular and recent flathub apps: https://flathub.org/
I see a lot of games, chat apps, text editors, photo apps, office apps. These all will work fine in XWayland and XQuartz. But also, it's relatively easy to get them running on Wayland natively.
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Are there any major sacrifices you make to play on Linux over Windows?
If you're worried about the potential of breaking things, I'd pick the Fedora Kinoite distro. Up to date gaming support, stable and extremely difficult to break. Install apps from Flathub using the built-in Discover software store and go nuts.
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discovery app not working after reimaging solution, no more GUI firefox click install
You can go on flathub.org to found many other apps you wish to install.
- Modern CSV version 2 is now available
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Linux Guide for Power Users
8. Go to https://flathub.org/ and install other useful software.
9. Install an office suite (for example, https://www.freeoffice.com/en/)
For games, Lutris and Steam are your friends.
What are some alternatives?
toolbox - Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux
vinegar - An open-source, minimal, configurable, fast bootstrapper for running Roblox on Linux.
wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.
appstream-glib - This library provides objects and helper methods to help reading and writing AppStream metadata.
docker-android - Android in docker solution with noVNC supported and video recording
steamos-btrfs
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
flathub - Issue tracker and new submissions
rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.
android-sdk-sources-for-api-level-1 - This is only a backup for Android SDK Sources for API Level 1 [Android 1.0].
toolbox-vscode - Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration
boxtron - Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox