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BennyHill500, in toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use?

All of the universal blue images come with distrobox so I gotten used to that, it’s nice that you can export apps so they appear in the DEs application menu

netwren, in GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required.

This is wickedly cool and I was wanting something like this last night. Crazy that I stumble on it the morning after.

lemmyvore, in Is there a "universal" web UI for custom Linux NASes?

There’s things like Unraid and Synology that have their own UI. But they have some limitations, for example Synology requires one of their devices, doesn’t run on generic ones.

0x4E4F,

There’s XPnology, but as I said, I like using my own solutuons (choose the distro and build on that).

TechAdmin, in Package up and transport a linux?

For the OS side a few ways.

  • Clone & then rename+change drivers
  • Ansible/chef
  • NixOS

For home folder side of things a dotfile manager, cloud services, and file sync tool will take care of most things. I use chezmoi for dotfiles & nextcloud for file syncing. Firefox is only cloud synced service I still use for now. I have yet to find any decent sources of information on dotfiles so gonna be stuck going through those stupid things to figure out what you want to sync.

alt, in Linux-hardened and Flatpak, Distrobox, Podman, Docker

Basically, you want to not disable kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone.

For a temporary solution that has to be redone after reboot, there is sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1.

For a lasting solution, consider echo kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-enable-unpriv-userns.conf.

In either case you’re foregoing security for the sake of convenience/functionality, so I understand why you would rather not act upon either of them.

I don’t know what the solution is that would be analogous to installing bubblewrap-suid. Perhaps, it’s worth exploring the projects found within the github page of Awesome Fedora Security for some pointers.

Unkend, in Linux 6.7 Features Include Bcachefs, Stable Meteor Lake Graphics, NVIDIA GSP & More Next-Gen Hardware - Phoronix

Bcachefs as root is going to be sweet.

Laser,

I’m also looking forward to Bcachefs, but rather for storage of large amounts of data. Just hoping the multi device feature works as well as advertised

AProfessional, in Linux-hardened and Flatpak, Distrobox, Podman, Docker

If you are running things inside of containers you aren’t helping yourself by disabling unprivileged namespaces, you are actually just running more things as root. Inside the containers they generally block namespaces anyway.

TBH I’ve never heard anything positive about most of what hardened does.

Pantherina,

I guess I would just disable this one hardening setting like another person recommended.

tkn, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.
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I’d say Pop_OS! which has a spin (version) with Nvidia drivers already installed. Below is a direct link. It’s based on Debian, so it enjoys excellent app support. Linux Mint is also a good choice.

iso.pop-os.org/…/pop-os_22.04_amd64_nvidia_35.iso

FIST_FILLET,

have not yet tried pop os, but +1 for mint!

tkn,
@tkn@startrek.website avatar

To add some clarity, Pop uses GNOME and is working on their own desktop based on Rust and Mint uses Cinnamon, a fork of old GNOME that they’ve significantly upgraded. I’ve used both and like both a lot, but have come to prefer GNOME.

humancrayon, (edited )
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I have installed PopOS and so far it’s been very stable. Most of the games I play are on Steam and support has been pretty awesome (BG3, CP2077, Valheim, Warhammer 40k: Inquisitor). For non-Steam games, WINE with the Wine Glass GUI has been great, allowing me to run older windows games without a problem.

EDIT: Forgot to add I’m running an Ryzen 7 3700X, 16GB ram, RX 5700XT

EDIT EDIT: +1 for Mint as well. Outside of my gaming PC, it’s my daily driver on my laptop.

governorkeagan,

I’ve had the same experience with gaming in PopOS

nik282000, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.
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Easy mode: LMDE/Mint. They are all geared towards a good user experience and trying to keep you out of the terminal. I would recommend them to any new Linux user.

For a slightly more advanced experience, Debian with XFCE as the desktop. The installation is slightly less friendly and they expect you to be familiar with using the terminal and tinkering with the guts of your OS from time to time but you can have a ‘lighter’ installation with less background services. (I run Debian on all my machines so I have a bias towards Debian and LMDE).

markstos, in Linux-hardened and Flatpak, Distrobox, Podman, Docker

Tools like Podman, Docker, Distrobox and Toolbox use custom uid namespaces. I don’t see how they could work with them disabled.

Pantherina,

With a specific exception only for one software. I would be happy with Flatpak and Podman. Maybe Waydroid and wine too though?

Rustmilian,
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Wine should just work.
Waydroid needs extra support from the kernel that linux-hardend has disabled at compile time. There’s a DKMS solution however.

Pantherina,

This one? it doesnt mention the hardened kernel at all, is this some obsolete modification not needed in modern Kernels?

Rustmilian, (edited )
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binder_linux-dkms
It’s an Android thing.

Pantherina,

Crazy that it just works on Fedora

Rustmilian,
@Rustmilian@lemmy.world avatar

That just means they have the feature enabled at compile time. Linux-Zen is the only kernel that has it on Arch.

iopq, in Package up and transport a linux?

There’s a distro called NixOS that is created for this purpose. It also has a tool called home manager that will manage your dot files for you. Once you back up like two or three configuration files you can recreate your system (minus any actual data)

When you do this in Arch there’s no guarantee you get the same package versions and there’s no guarantee everything works

lupec, (edited )

To add to this, another viable path is using Nix, the package manager, on its own. That way you can get Home Manager to manage your applications and dotfiles independently of your base system, as long as you are able to install Nix.

It’s my general workflow, run Determinate Nix Installer, install Home Manager, clone my config and I’m off to the races. Been sharing that config between Debian, Ubuntu on WSL and Bazzite for a while and it’s served me well so far.

Pantherina, in toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use?

Distrobox was always stable for me. Autocomplete only in bash but that doesnt matter much. Waaay more images by default but not as curated, also many are maintained by Fedora people and not the Distrobox people, so its not like they actually support more but just ship.

This is a big difference, Toolbox also supports these images.

But featurewise distrobox is brilliant, love the app icon export, the binaries are maybe a bit bloated.

authed, in Linux distribution for gaming and media centre.

Just install your fav distro and install whatever you need

BroBot9000,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Never installed Linux before, don’t have a fav. That’s why I’m asking.

authed, (edited )

They are mostl all about the same (the major ones)… Different package managers and other differences but basically the same

wuphysics87,

How is this helpful?

authed, (edited )

I used more than 10 distros and don’t really notice that much difference is my point

Pantherina, (edited ) in Testing packaging which targets multiple distributions?

Not mentioned here so:

  • virt-manager is better than virtualbox.

<span style="color:#323232;">sudo dnf install qemu qemu-kvm virt-manager
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo groupadd libvirt
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USER
</span><span style="color:#323232;">systemctl enable --now libvirtd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">virt-manager
</span>

Thats the way on Fedora, debian packages are called a bit differently, Ubuntu again, but that method works.

Also for packaging an app that just works, why not flatpak? Especially if its a GUI app, this would highly improve availability on many Distros not covered by RPMs and DEBs. Also RPMs can have dependency conflicts between Opensuse and Fedora because naming, probably similar with Ubuntu and Debian.

danileonis, (edited ) in Metal music with Linux?
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I’m actually using Ardour as my daily daw, very powerfull (check my profile if interested in libre music). Consider I made electronic music for many years with proprietary software.

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