[Hobby Scuffles] Week of January 23, 2023

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Bottles

There are a few reasons why the distro is notable. One, it's made by a very active devs who had also developed Bottles, a free and pretty wrapper for Wine emulation layer used to run Windows games and software. Second, vanillaOS started out with a simple "put immutable attribute to all files and folders in root" which is based on a simple sudo chattr -i command that can be used on any file, making it only almost immutable as you can also just remove the immutable trait; they have since developed a new system called ABroot sorta like Android's AB partition. While a lot of immutable distro expect you to know how to do what you need to do and at most just drops you flatpak pre-installed, not everything is available on the flathub 'store', so vanillaOS put in apx which is a streamlined version of distrobox made in collaboration with the distrobox dev to be able to run other Linux distro in container as well graphical wrapper to manage updates, drivers, and containers.

#Cloud Computing #Group Chat & Notifications #Gaming 227 social mentions

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KDE Plasma Desktop

Enter blendOS. Also immutable OS, but based on Arch instead of Ubuntu (which... Kinda not great for immutable unless you approach it like Valve's SteamOS due to how Arch normally wants frequent updates). Also by a famous dev, who has done projects such as Unity revival and Gamebuntu. It uses nearly which is a fork of almost. It uses Crystal Linux's jade installer which allows it to set what Desktop Environment (GUI you interact with, KDE is the one used by SteamOS while many distro defaults to Gnome due to historical and packaging issues) while for now vanillaOS only offers Gnome by default as they're working on their 'minimal' ISO for people to choose what DE they want to use and later might offer an official KDE version. Oh, and blend which is basically apx but with a few new commands like installing a DE inside a container.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Desktop Environments 66 social mentions

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Flatpak

There are a few reasons why the distro is notable. One, it's made by a very active devs who had also developed Bottles, a free and pretty wrapper for Wine emulation layer used to run Windows games and software. Second, vanillaOS started out with a simple "put immutable attribute to all files and folders in root" which is based on a simple sudo chattr -i command that can be used on any file, making it only almost immutable as you can also just remove the immutable trait; they have since developed a new system called ABroot sorta like Android's AB partition. While a lot of immutable distro expect you to know how to do what you need to do and at most just drops you flatpak pre-installed, not everything is available on the flathub 'store', so vanillaOS put in apx which is a streamlined version of distrobox made in collaboration with the distrobox dev to be able to run other Linux distro in container as well graphical wrapper to manage updates, drivers, and containers.

#Front End Package Manager #Package Manager #Developer Tools 84 social mentions