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OCI images that you can turn into a full-fledged developer workstation shipping Devbox, Nix, Homebrew, devcontainers and DevPod with one command. Pretty swanky!

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I have long loooooong ago given up on distro hopping because, at the end of the day, most distros are close enough to each other that it doesn't really matter which one you choose at the end of the day. These new immutable ones though.. They seem cool as hell. I need to give one a go someday.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Same, I found Arch over a decade ago and stopped looking.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like I left arch a decade ago. 😄

It was rough going around the time of the systemd transition and needed something more consistently reliable. I've been on Mint ever since.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Arch has rarely ever given me problems...that I didn't cause myself 🤣

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