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7 months agoThere is definitely this for activities, so I’d be surprised if there isn’t for virtual desktops given how much more popular/supported they are
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7·8 months agoSee also: GNU’s Not Unix, WINE Is Not an Emulator…
And in a slightly different way: I’m So Meta Even This Acronym (ISMETA)
Since they already mentioned WSL, you can also describe distrobox like WSL for Linux.
but yeah, agree this would be the simplest.
Ha! Good to know
While I too like the analogy, and agree that Windows is becoming increasingly money grabby, I feel the need to be fair: as an OS it has supported native ISO mounting since Win7, just right click an ISO file and choose “Mount”…
Ooh! Are you one of today’s lucky 10,000?!
A person of culture, I see!
Apparently not, in the web UI at least
Oh god email clients are a whole other world of pain from browsers. My condolences.
They’re non breaking so he should be, well, not broken.
Cos he did in the template I used 😅 not intentional, my bad.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Checks out. I used this at a pirates and ninjas party in about 2007!
I guess it’s an “Ahoy matey!” Project?
I don’t know tons of the detail but I understand the principle. The immutable part of the system is really just an applied oci container image for any ublue based distro.
Certain mount points are writable and persisted (e.g.
/home), but otherwise you can just reimage the entire system with any compatible (ublue based) image. Then each image is built by layering changes using ostree. So that’s how you get the different distros.Silverblue is ublue with gnome, kinoite is ublue with KDE, Bazzite layers steam, proprietary Nvidia drivers and other stuff mainly gaming related, etc.
System updates (which tend to be regular) are just applying an updated image, so actually updating is effectively the same as rebasing.
You can also yourself add ostree layers on top of the base image, and if you rebase to a different one your layers get reapplied on top.