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Richardisaguy Richard is a lemur @lemmy.ml
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Distrobox appreciation post

Distrobox is underappreciated as hell, no surprise that vanillaOS, and alikes are getting so popular right now.

I have a laptop with opensuse, great, great distro, performance is awesome, very stable and resilient, running the latest KDE, for most apps, I have flatpak in user mode, so I don't write anything in my root directory, nothing runs as sudo.

But opensuse has a fatal flaw, it's not arch linux, software availability is not exceptional, sometimes you miss a thing, or the software you relie on, doesn't work, or it's broken because it won't support suse properly. That's where distrobox comes in, using it you can create a container distro and have you software in there, hell, you could even make multiple containers for different uses, like a development container with vs code, and the gazillion libraries and dev packages inside without having to worry about bloating the main system, or a gaming container with lutris, wine, all it's 32 bit libraries and dependencies without mixing them with the host system, like I do, or perhaps you can have a container with davinci resolve, or other program that still has a windows-like installer that either works, or breaks your entire system every time you try it on a new distro, possibilities and almost endless! And even better, no performance penalty!

The coolest thing about distrobox is for sure the container-userland integration, for example, if your app inside distrobox is able to use xdg desktop portal, you can do cool stuff like screen capture, file picking, and actually having the right theming(if you have a copy of your theme under your home of course), all with the Host's portal! Even fonts sync with the host!

Sadly, distrobox is not flowless, you can't really use it with things that depend on deeper system integration, for example, waydroid, which needs to have a service running as root on the kernel for it to actually work, so using it on distros like opensuse or your average independent Linux based operating system, [insert cool, or clever word]OS that you and other 6 people on the entire globe love (for some reason) remains impossible without proper support.

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Quais apps para lemmy vcs usam?
  • Jerboa, tenho alguns problemas de vez em quando mais fora isso funciona perfeitamente

  • Is there any reason NOT to use openSUSE Tumbleweed as a desktop OS?
  • Software avaliability can be a bit scarce too, mainly when compared to fedora or even arch's aur

  • Good printers?
  • Wish i knew that before i opened fire at my inkjet

  • [OC] Sweet Character Art
  • Yes, i know, but my point is that bones do not bend like that, still like your drawing two

  • How often do you brush your teeth?
  • I were supposed to do tree times a day, but i end up 2 every day. I also bathe every day

  • [OC] Sweet Character Art
  • 1st(in red): bones are straingt

    2nd(im blue): this is what it should look like

    3rd(in purple): do the same position with your real life arms, i am sure they don't have this.

    To be clear, in the third i'm refeering to the straing part the arrow points at

  • [OC] Sweet Character Art
  • Their anathomy

  • [OC] Sweet Character Art
  • They look strange, thats what i mean

  • [OC] Sweet Character Art
  • Lighting's great, colour's great, everything's great. But those arms man, they scare me. I would suggest sketching her body first, then do the rest, her anathomy is a tad bit messed up

  • lemmy users who have achived their dreams/goal, how did you do it?
  • I have very a simple dream, which is, being happy, after idfk years i finally got it, i just needed to open up, and tell some bad jokes. Guess it's just luck

  • [KDE Plasma] I'm not good at ricing, but by god, I can at least choose a cool wallpaper!
  • Cant you just add the apps to the desktop without applets?

  • What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy?
  • Pff, this country needs less people like you

    ps: i'm from uganda

  • Do you speak computer and human?
  • Yes, i speak portuguese, english, python, c, and gdscript, i'm also learning french

  • Je peux aide, français de lemmy
  • Merci beaucoup, gentilé étranger de internet!

  • Je peux aide, français de lemmy

    Salut, pardon mon mauvaise français, je suis un brésilien étudiant de vous langue, s'il vous plait, recommande-moi Youtubers ou Blogs que parlons de Linux, biologie, ou art. S'il vous plait, correcte mon texte, si tu considéré erreur.

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    what is a very niche product that you would like to see exist

    For example, a bird holder, with it you can hold your bird while you give it medication or similar

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    Community Requests. @lemmy.ml Richard is a lemur @lemmy.ml

    calling out all Brazilians join c/brasil

    I know you're there, we are everywhere

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