I'm with you on the idea of using Toolbx over Distrobox. Distrobox has more features, and is designed for more general use, but like you said, Toolbx is more tightly integrated into Fedora, so that's one of the reasons I prefer it. The other big reason, is that Toolbx has been rewritten in the Go language, which allows it to work better than the POSIX based shell scripting that Distrobox uses. They are two different tools, aimed at two different audiences, doing basically the same thing.Thanks, I'm going to go with fedora as the host here as it seems to be furthest along. I did a bit of research on this a while back but I missed a few things. It's more like using wsl (with multiple named Linux installs) than I thought and that will work well for my current need for this machine. Like I've said, I have used other distros for specific applications, I'm not afraid of it, the details will come back to me. Of course, some things have changed, so new stuff to learn, yay!The best part about all of this is that you can adjust into it as slowly as you want, and you don’t have to limit yourself to Fedora. Of course one of several immutable distros will give you the benefit of immutability and Atomic updates, but you can even use your favorite normal distro and get a lot of the benefits by using the following plan:
Also, I want to use Toolbox and, although it seems that it can be installed on Ubuntu/Debian on podman, I like the tight integration with Fedora silverblue. I ran into some dependency issues with it when I thought that I'd try it some time back. I'm not surprised by this, on my development systems I'm often using more obscure stuff where this may happen and I can't just break the system to make something new work.
So, this seems like a good opportunity to try silverblue on a system where it will be low risk.
BTW, just in case you didn't know: Fedora Silverblue isn't the only immutable Fedora distro. There are actually four different spins available in the Fedora Atomic Desktops family, where the only difference is the desktop environment offered:
Fedora Silverblue = Gnome
Fedora Kinoite = KDE Plasma
Fedora Budgie = Budgie
Fedora Sway = Sway tiling manager
So, you are in no way tied to using Gnome, if you don't like it. You can use any of these, and they pretty much work the same.
I personally prefer Gnome, and use my 2-in-1 Lenovo Yoga as a tablet as much as a laptop, and Gnome has the best touch support. But others have other preferences, so I wanted to make sure you were aware of your options.
EDIT: BTW, if you are still wanting to do audio on Fedora, I've compiled a guide that may be helpful for you:
https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=27121
Statistics: Posted by audiojunkie — Fri Aug 30, 2024 8:45 pm