toolbox is preinstalled on fedora silverblue/kinoite whereas distrobox isn’t. What’s the advantage of one vs the other? Why is toolbox preinstalled and not distrobox?

edit: thank you guys! I guess for me this means that I’ll use distrobox because it’s much more mature or documentation is a little bit better and I do not need (or have) fedora’s support

  • FaeDrifterEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The biggest advantage in my experience is that you get fresh cutting-edge packages and quick updates, and rock-solid stability.

    This is having your cake and eating it too in the linux world. I’ve tried rolling release distros like Arch and Tumbleweed, and at some point eventually they’ll break somewhere and I’ll need to be a Linux admin and dig into the cli and fix them. I’ve tried point release distros like Ubuntu and Fedora, and after a few dist-upgrades something will break.

    Debian is rock-solid, if you don’t mind your packages being years behind in updates. Which means less support for very recent hardware.

    Immutable distros are the “just works” of Linux distros. Perfect for newbies and non-technical users, especially now that flathub is transforming into a robust app store. Perfect for gaming consoles like the steam deck. Perfect for gamers who want their new GPU supported but don’t want to spend time fixing something when it breaks. Perfect for a school to deploy a stable set of self-updating reliable desktops and laptops to students.

    For someone like you who probably is already a savvy Linux user, I couldn’t give you any reasons to switch. I think if widespread adoptions of Linux happens, it will be via immutable distros.