Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

Huge shootout to the Distrobox devs, you saved my day :)

I brew beer as a hobby. I’ve been using Joliebulle 3 for close to 10 years because it’s FOSS and super simple to use, and I’m too lazy to switch to another brewing app. It’s been unmaintained for almost 5 years, but it wonderfully does exactly what I want from a brewing software. I was missing this crucial “piece of equipment” since I migrated to Fedora.

Brew day is tomorrow. I forgot to look into it until it was almost too late.

fedev,

If you switch to Arch, this is waiting for you in AUR 😊.

aur.archlinux.org/packages/joliebulle

FarLine99,

archarcharahrahchrahchrahchraharhahrahrarararararrar

lemmybrucelee,

Whatcha brewing? I’m about to transfer my first lager using novalager to the secondary. Got pretty good attenuation and may have gone overboard with the whirlpool hops lol

snor10,

What is Distrobox? Something for immutable OSes?

quarterlife,

It’s for anybody, incredible tool.

SymbolicLink,

From a user perspective, Distrobox is a tool that lets you “spin up any distro inside your terminal”.

You can basically create a mini Linux environment of any distro that you can access through the terminal. You can set it to share your home folder, our create a new home folder just for that mini environment.

Behind the scenes Distrobox is creating and managing containers through Podman or Docker. You could technically achieve the same thing by manually setting up Podman containers, Distrobox just makes it very easy to create and maintain those containers with the correct permissions. It also has useful tools where you could install an app in a Distrobox container, but then add that app to your host OS app list.

This makes it especially useful for immutable OSs. Instead of adding packages to your base OS, which should be kept as minimal as possible, you can just install them in a Distrobox, so your host’s root filesystem is unaffected.

SymbolicLink,

I daily drive Fedora Silverblue on my laptop and distrobox has been great.

I have layered only two packages: USB Guard and Distrobox. I run syncthing in a rootless podman container, and the rest goes through Distrobox.

I was even able to setup ProtonVPN in distrobox and it functions as if it was directly installed on the host (just need to map your home folder and some permissions).

I hope that immutable becomes either the standard or at least all major distros start offering it as an alternative. Makes everything foolproof and makes me much more willing to try new packages and tools because I can always just roll back.

The only thing that would really make it perfect is if files in /etc/ where also handled in a similar manner. IE: Can make changes to configuration files, and easily roll back to defaults at any time.

hinterlufer,

I know you said you’re too lazy to switch to a different brewing app, but you should really check out kleiner Brauhelfer

dannoffs,
@dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That has to be the most German piece of software in existence

WFH,

Oh thanks, I’ll check it out.

Tiuku,

There’s also Brewtarget.

jaykstah,

This is one of those things that I’d come across and went “huh thats pretty cool” then promptly for got about, so this is a nice reminder about distrobox haha

I’ll have to go back and mess with it, such a cool tool to have

aleph,
@aleph@lemm.ee avatar

Same here. It’s a great tool but I’ve never found a real-world situation where I actually need it.

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