The entire team here at Universal Blue is thrilled to announce that we’ve passed 100,000 weekly active users! It’s hard to believe how far things have come in just the last 5 years. What started as a small project to bring cloud native to the Linux desktop has grown because of the people who believed in it: the contributors who spent nights fixing bugs and reviewing PRs, the folks answering questions in Discord and on the forums at 2 AM, the package maintainers keeping everything running s...
Only the main OS image is immutable, but there’s distrobox, homebrew, virtual machines (now moved to bazzite-dx, only a rebase away), lots of ways to install stuff in userspace.
Distroboxes are actually a really good developer workflow (except for system level stuff) once you adapt, install everything needed for a project, develop, archive the environment, all without touching the main OS. Obscure old project with instructions only for Arch, needing old python and CUDA versions, no problem. Super versatile and you never boot to a broken system.
In a pinch you can also change the image with rpm-ostree install.
Distrobox has been hit or miss for me, the images (mostly the arch ones) sometimes just come out borked right out of the box, but I still second this. I haven’t had issues with Bazzite’s immutability and I use it on my gaming rig as well as my Framework laptop which I use for work. Whatever makes me feel like its straying from the path of Bazzite, I just throw it into a mint distrobox. I don’t even attempt to install it directly into Bazzite unless it’s an appImage or a flatpak. As a webdev who handles multiple node versions and multiple codebases at once, I have 0 issues with Bazzite for work.
Only the main OS image is immutable, but there’s distrobox, homebrew, virtual machines (now moved to bazzite-dx, only a rebase away), lots of ways to install stuff in userspace.
Distroboxes are actually a really good developer workflow (except for system level stuff) once you adapt, install everything needed for a project, develop, archive the environment, all without touching the main OS. Obscure old project with instructions only for Arch, needing old python and CUDA versions, no problem. Super versatile and you never boot to a broken system.
In a pinch you can also change the image with rpm-ostree install.
Distrobox has been hit or miss for me, the images (mostly the arch ones) sometimes just come out borked right out of the box, but I still second this. I haven’t had issues with Bazzite’s immutability and I use it on my gaming rig as well as my Framework laptop which I use for work. Whatever makes me feel like its straying from the path of Bazzite, I just throw it into a mint distrobox. I don’t even attempt to install it directly into Bazzite unless it’s an appImage or a flatpak. As a webdev who handles multiple node versions and multiple codebases at once, I have 0 issues with Bazzite for work.