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distrobox
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nala
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What are some good LTS distros that are preferably not Debian based
Use nala instead: https://gitlab.com/volian/nala
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Finally switched to normal debian after maining kali like a dumbass for months
Try switching to Nala for your apt front end. Way better experience.
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Creating an Ubuntu post install script
I do like Nala front-end for "apt". I'm new to it, but it would likely be at the top of my script.
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How to change the repo from local one
You can use nala and do a sudo nala fetch command to find the fastest repo servers.
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Your default post-install packages
You’d need to be on testing or sid for nala. It’s also available from the website and you can install with dpkg.
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Yep.. I'm dumping APT for Nala.
Nala is available on Stable, but you have to use our repositories as specified in our installation instructions https://gitlab.com/volian/nala/-/wikis/Installation.
- do you use Nala package manager??
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Did not finish, yet!?
nala says hello.
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apt post transaction actions
I know that Nala has support for this, but it's one of the lesser used features so there could be some bugs present. https://gitlab.com/volian/nala
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Package manager GUI...
idk anything like this, but you can use Nala, to make apt looks better. :)
distrobox
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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
- In-depth Distrobox tutorial/ or video?
What are some alternatives?
bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.
toolbox - Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux
pacstall-programs - Pacstall's official program repository
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.
pikaur - AUR helper with minimal dependencies. Review PKGBUILDs all in once, next build them all without user interaction.
docker-android - Android in docker solution with noVNC supported and video recording
complete-alias - automagical shell alias completion;
flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework
game-devices-udev
rustdesk - An open-source remote desktop, and alternative to TeamViewer.
rust-apt
toolbox-vscode - Toolbox Visual Studio Code integration