HelpWire container choice
There are two packages for HelpWire: a Fedora package, and a Debian package (no Arch or AUR package unfortunately). Which one do you guys suggest I install? ... meaning which container do you guys suggest I build, Debian or Fedora? Which one's "better"?
(There 's also a portable HelpWire package: should I go for that instead? Where would I install that one?)
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By helpwire do you mean this? www.helpwire.app
check your software store and see if there's a Flatpak. If not, just make an Ubuntu container and install the deb
also Rustdesk is better
for personal use
that has an AUR package
tbh i'm not sure if a remote desktop tool would work in a container
Thanks, there's no Helpwire flatpak unfortunately. (And yes, I know and love Rustdesk ... and Rustdesk does have a flatpak package, and yes, I do have it installed.)
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between the Rustdesk flatpak and the AUR, which one do you recommend?
Either should be fine.
flatpak
don't use the host unless you have to
(In all honesty, at this point I am very happy with gnome-remote-desktop, though I do like some choice ...)
I use Remmina for all my RDP/VNC needs
same here
and virt-viewer for SPICE
dunno what that is
will look it up
SPICE is a protocol usually used with QEMU for connecting to VMs
virt-viewer is part of the QEMU GUI called virt-manager
though it can be installed seperately
as for why a remote desktop app may not work from within a container, i thought that blendOS containers are akin to distrobox containers, hence they should expose pretty much everything to the environment, shouldn't they?
... seamlessly
at least that's ehat I heard about distrobox containers
quote: "While BlendOS does not use Distrobox directly, it utilizes Podman for containerization, incorporating some code from Distrobox, particularly for NVIDIA support. BlendOS uses a custom implementation called blend, built on top of Podman, to manage containers and their integration with the host system. It provides a seamless blend of different distributions by making containerized software available as if it were part of the base system. "
@Christian, you've gained the level
1¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've never tried it
anyway, i think it's worth trying
I think I wrote that
will do, and report back
... about how seamless this integration is