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Questions on container platforms (lemm.ee)

submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by Charlatan@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am running Chimera Linux which I really love for a bunch of reasons. I have a need to run a few applications that are not going to work with MUSL, and are not presently offered via flatpak. Thus, containers I think are my go-to. II was thinking of spinning up a minimal Void linux to use these apps. I don't have experience running containers at this point and have struggled to understand how to interact with them.

I like simple, and Chimera offers the following solutions -

Containerd
Podman
Bubble wrap
Chroot

I am pretty sure I can get away with a terminal only setup for these apps, but what if I need a GUI? Is there a good choice among these for security? Resources are not at a premium on my laptop. What do you prefer and why?

TIA!

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[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I usually spin up a distrobox container of Arch for anything I need that I don't want to, or can't compile myself. Both CLI and GUI programs work, and you can use podman as the backend.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If you are building apps from source, consider creating an actual Chimera Linux apk. It is surprisingly easy. I like keeping everything under the control of the package manager.

That is assuming you are a Chimera Linux user of course.

[–] Celediel@slrpnk.net 1 points 11 hours ago

My main distro these days is Gentoo, but I definitely feel the same. I'll write an ebuild anytime it's feasible, and Gentoo has some pretty great tools for helping me keep up with updates for things.