3 ms·
Distrobox exists for that very reason. No need to ruin your main OS just to run one app.
by d3Xt3r 6mo ago
Distrobox exists for that very reason. No need to ruin your main OS just to run one app.
- grim_io 6mo agoDistrobox is great for cli apps and stuff not touching mesa/drivers. It's very awkward or unusable otherwise.
- d3Xt3r 6mo agoHasn't been my experience, running KDE Wayland on host with amdgpu. Just had to pass `--extra-flags "env GDK_BACKEND=wayland"` when exporting the app. Zero issues, far from being unusable. In fact you can even run an entire DE from Distrobox if you wanted to, although I can imagine that being a bit awkward. But a single GUI app? Shouldn't be an issue unless you've got a tricky/niche setup.
- grim_io 6mo agoThis is again the argument of the power user arguing that everyone should just become the expert in the power users domain. As long as the Kernel ist compatible, sure, technically. This is not what I would consider "supported". This is not something a company wants to deal with on every single Linux client.
- hollerith 6mo ago>This is not something a company wants to deal with on every single Linux client. A company following your recommendation would need to deal with installing and upgrading the software "on every single" Ubuntu client. I fail see how that is any easier than installing and upgrading it in an Ubuntu Distrobox on every single client running some other flavor of Linux.