Which distro/image to use for distrobox where you just want to install tools?

posted 11 months ago

The immutable state of distros like fedora silerblue and opensuse microos leads to the use of distrobox.

I defaulted to a fedora image but there must be better images for the job. What do you suggest to use if you just want to install pdflatex, pandoc, R, julia, python, ffmpeg, etc. Just the usual tools you need for the tasks everyday

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llothar@lemmy.ml

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11 months ago

One year ago I treated how long it takes to get Gimp to install on various distros in distrobox:

Results:

zypper@Tumbleweed: 3 minutes, 22 seconds

apt@Ubuntu 22.04: 1 minute 26 seconds

dnf@Fedora: 1 minute 2 seconds

pacman@arch: 0 minutes 21 seconds

But that’s just installation speed. It simply shows that there are quite big differences depending on use case.

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