Toolbox or Distrobox? #169

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opened 2022-07-29 01:36:10 +00:00 by a · 1 comment

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Continuing the discussion from #142, specifically this comment, does anyone have a preference towards Toolbox or Distrobox?

Advantages of Toolbox:

Maintained by Red Hat
Packaged in the Arch official repos (Distrobox is in the AUR)
We won't have to rename the wiki article to Distrobox 😄

Advantages of Distrobox:

You can use any Podman image without first building one
Packaged in nixpkgs (Toolbox is not packaged)
Automatically configures fish as the default shell
distrobox-host-exec for easily executing a host command
distrobox-export for creating .desktop files for running an app inside the Distrobox
You can configure how the home directory is shared
Distrobox is written in shell so it's easier to extend and hack on than Toolbox, which is written in Go

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/u69vr9/distrobox_vs_toolbox/ has some more information.

Continuing the discussion from #142, specifically [this comment](https://git.exozy.me/exozyme/exozyme/issues/142#issuecomment-2959), does anyone have a preference towards Toolbox or Distrobox? Advantages of Toolbox: - Maintained by Red Hat - Packaged in the Arch official repos (Distrobox is in the AUR) - We won't have to rename the wiki article to Distrobox 😄 Advantages of Distrobox: - You can use any Podman image without first building one - Packaged in nixpkgs (Toolbox is not packaged) - Automatically configures fish as the default shell - distrobox-host-exec for easily executing a host command - distrobox-export for creating `.desktop` files for running an app inside the Distrobox - You can configure how the home directory is shared - Distrobox is written in shell so it's easier to extend and hack on than Toolbox, which is written in Go https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/u69vr9/distrobox_vs_toolbox/ has some more information.

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2022-07-29 01:46:31 +00:00

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I'm always bad at making decisions like this since I overthink it a lot, but I'm pretty sure the list of advantages above makes it a clear win for Distrobox. If anyone disagrees, just reopen this issue.

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