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Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox
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The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro.
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There are a few reasons why the distro is notable. One, it's made by a very active devs who had also developed Bottles, a free and pretty wrapper for Wine emulation layer used to run Windows games and software. Second, vanillaOS started out with a simple "put immutable attribute to all files and folders in root" which is based on a simple sudo chattr -i command that can be used on any file, making it only almost immutable as you can also just remove the immutable trait; they have since developed a new system called ABroot sorta like Android's AB partition. while a lot of immutable distro expect you to know how to do what you need to do and at most just drops you flatpak pre-installed, not everything is available on the flathub 'store', so vanillaOS put in apx which is a streamlined version of distrobox made in collaboration with the distrobox dev to be able to run other Linux distro in container as well graphical wrapper to manage updates, drivers, and containers.
There are a few reasons why the distro is notable. One, it's made by a very active devs who had also developed Bottles, a free and pretty wrapper for Wine emulation layer used to run Windows games and software. Second, vanillaOS started out with a simple "put immutable attribute to all files and folders in root" which is based on a simple sudo chattr -i command that can be used on any file, making it only almost immutable as you can also just remove the immutable trait; they have since developed a new system called ABroot sorta like Android's AB partition. while a lot of immutable distro expect you to know how to do what you need to do and at most just drops you flatpak pre-installed, not everything is available on the flathub 'store', so vanillaOS put in apx which is a streamlined version of distrobox made in collaboration with the distrobox dev to be able to run other Linux distro in container as well graphical wrapper to manage updates, drivers, and containers.
There are a few reasons why the distro is notable. One, it's made by a very active devs who had also developed Bottles, a free and pretty wrapper for Wine emulation layer used to run Windows games and software. Second, vanillaOS started out with a simple "put immutable attribute to all files and folders in root" which is based on a simple sudo chattr -i command that can be used on any file, making it only almost immutable as you can also just remove the immutable trait; they have since developed a new system called ABroot sorta like Android's AB partition. while a lot of immutable distro expect you to know how to do what you need to do and at most just drops you flatpak pre-installed, not everything is available on the flathub 'store', so vanillaOS put in apx which is a streamlined version of distrobox made in collaboration with the distrobox dev to be able to run other Linux distro in container as well graphical wrapper to manage updates, drivers, and containers.
I googled the extension and I found some interesting discussion of issues on its source code
So basically there's a relatively new movement in Linux distribution called Immutable OS. Linux distro is basically a specific version of Linux and related tools that's pre-configured to be ready to install by the end-user. The basic idea is that the core system is made unmodifiable beyond what is necessary (with 'necessary' being subject to the distributor's opinion) with everything else done through containerized/sandboxed methods. One of these new distro is VanillOS, their first public release having been just last month.
There are a few reasons why the distro is notable. One, it's made by a very active devs who had also developed Bottles, a free and pretty wrapper for Wine emulation layer used to run Windows games and software. Second, vanillaOS started out with a simple "put immutable attribute to all files and folders in root" which is based on a simple sudo chattr -i command that can be used on any file, making it only almost immutable as you can also just remove the immutable trait; they have since developed a new system called ABroot sorta like Android's AB partition. while a lot of immutable distro expect you to know how to do what you need to do and at most just drops you flatpak pre-installed, not everything is available on the flathub 'store', so vanillaOS put in apx which is a streamlined version of distrobox made in collaboration with the distrobox dev to be able to run other Linux distro in container as well graphical wrapper to manage updates, drivers, and containers.
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.
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.
All of the projects involved uses the GPL v3 license. Let's just say, it is a pretty strict license that have been tried and true. While there are some pros and cons in the use of GPL as a license, it is a license that is quite favored in FOSS community because it sort of levels the playing field (coughEEEcough).
As for the rest, I've been testing stuff with distrobox, junest (which is like distrobox, but for arch guest and without the container), and Conty (a lot like Junest but as a single hyper-compressed executable file). Anything requiring an escalation or wanting actual access to root remains an issue, but for the most part, it works well enough.
As for the rest, I've been testing stuff with distrobox, junest (which is like distrobox, but for arch guest and without the container), and Conty (a lot like Junest but as a single hyper-compressed executable file). Anything requiring an escalation or wanting actual access to root remains an issue, but for the most part, it works well enough.
Some people has managed to find hacky workaround through the Flatpak sandbox to get certain apps working, and Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite and Steam Deck has been a major pusher for Flatpak adoption that OBS released an officially supported Linux version on Flatpak and Spotify is looking into an official Flatpak release (as opposed to the current community re-packaged one).