you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I use Debian and was using Arch in a Distrobox to have some AUR apps (PyCharm, DBeaver, Pulsar Editor and a few more). It's nice and I recomend you to try and have fun with it. Undoubtedly, Distrobox is a game changer - however, I believe it's a better tool to set a development environment, with the distro and packages used in the production environment. Nowadays, just to install random software on Debian, I've been using Pacstall - try it as well. In the end, I think it integrates better. For example, if I click on a link in a Markdown doc in Pulsar in a box, either it will not open the link if I don't have another browser within the box or I'll have to implement a workaround to open the host's browser.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I had never heard of Pacstall. Thanks.

    You use it with Debian? It looks like it targets Ubuntu.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Yes, I use Debian and Pacstall works well on it. From their Wiki, you can see that you can target incompatible versions if applicable - I saw it in one app, incompatible with Bullseye but compatible with Bookworm and Ubuntu (maybe git-delta, if I remember well). Also, I have a small contribution to the project as well.

  • source
  • parent