Portable Formats and Inmutable Distros (opens in new tab)

submitted by I feel like inmutable distros are in a quite good state nowadays, and while solutions like bootc and sysexts are not “mainstream” yet, it’s getting there when it comes to getting non Flatpak packages, things get interesting, there are a lot of options, really AppImages, statically linked binaries, tarballs, OCI containers, distrobox/toolbx, Homebrew, VMs, Nix even experimental formats like RunImages, AppBundles and FlatImages if you need some non-system level package, you’ll have...