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What distro do you use and why? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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yes i did a os one but i am wondering what distros do you guys use and why,for me cachyos its fast,flexible,has aur(I loved how easy installing apps was) without tinkering.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do people use for command line utilities? The selection on flatpak is a bit sparse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Options include:

Installing them through brew; this is setup, enabled and configured correctly by default on uBlue projects like Aurora, Bazzite and Bluefin.
Installing them within a container; be it though Toolbx or Distrobox. This is what Fedora Atomic initially intended (and probably still does).
Some users got a lot of mileage from utilizing nix to this effect.
If all else fails (or if you outright prefer it this way), you can always layer it through rpm-ostree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Flatpak, create a shell script to call the flatpak command and pass arguments
If the app doesn’t work well as a flatpak or isn’t packaged, I would use distrobox
If the app doesn’t work well in distrobox, I’d rpm-ostree install it
If I’m feeling fancy, I might look into installing homebrew. But you need to do some workarounds with PATH and homebrew otherwise it can break things; Universal Blue includes these workarounds out of the box