ok you guys inspired me to dive into distrobox, when we talked about it yearlier, and I'm gonna drop web-dev on Windows, gonna leave this OS for Python dev since its work-related, and web-dev is more personal-related
gonna try to set up a web-dev on both my Steam Deck (SteamOS) and on my Kinoite machine, I know Bazzite has a GUI for this, but I'm willing to learn CLI before going full GUI, that is if this is not too hard haha
at the same time I don't need much:
1. Visual Studio Code 2. NPM 3. Node.js 4. Jest
idk how hard it is to implement this on Kinoite, or even on the Steam Deck (SteamOS), but I figure Bazzite has the best experience out of this, so depending on how this adventure goes I can migrate to it
i would say put all the dev stuff in 1 container of your choice (ubuntu, fedora, arch) depending on which one you know the package names on or what you prefer or how up to date you want the dependencies to be. then use the flatpak vscode (my preferred way) and hook that to the container (this lets you use different containers for different environments with their own home folders if you configure them that way) https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/posts/integrate_vscode_distrobox.md#from-flatpak
or you can just install vscode inside the distrobox and export it, however i got 3 dev environments so i use the flatpak so i dont end up with 3 vscode installs
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yeah 90% of my dev time is in the ubuntu container but sometimes i need to make a binary to test directly on my machine, outside the container so i need the fedora container for those builds
Well it is Facebook, also during most of my life I have come to realize that using computers and being good with software is rare, most people know how to use Facebook but installing Linux distros on a handheld is niche for most people, most people probably don't even know what Linux is.
Most people probably use android thinking it's completely original without knowing it is based of Linux, most people probably think macOS is original without knowing it is based on Unix, the very same thing that later on went on to become Linux.
We are a niche category of the world comprised of "nerds" and other stereotypes, but even if only 10% of the world knows about us and knows how to use software like us then that is still more than 700 million people.