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1 • Containers (by tfirkins on 2025-04-14 01:14:09 GMT from United States)
I use LXC containers under Proxmox to run a PlexMediaServer and an instance of Nextcloud. One uses Fedora, and the other uses Debian. Updates are simple and fast with DNF and APT respectively.
Both are containers are stable and reliable.
2 • Containers (by Sam Crawford on 2025-04-14 01:18:36 GMT from United States)
I run my Unifi cloudkey in a container on my NAS.
Other than than no,
3 • Containers @2 (by Sam Crawford on 2025-04-14 01:19:58 GMT from United States)
I meant Unifi Controller--not cloudkey.
4 • RE: ArchBang (by CorpSouth on 2025-04-14 02:16:11 GMT from United States)
Yeah the fact this distribution comes in outta nowhere trying to ride the coattails of CrunchBang++ is a slap in the face, especially if it doesn't "just work" out of the box.
Just do yourselves a favor and install Artix, or Arch Linux proper.
5 • EndeavourOS seems kind of the opposite of Arch (by Andy Prough on 2025-04-14 03:40:06 GMT from Switzerland)
This EndeavourOS review makes it sound like an easy installation and a default setup of a big, heavy desktop environment and popular applications - which sounds a lot more like Mint or MX or Kubuntu. I thought Arch was supposed to be about starting from a minimal base and configuring your own system one piece at a time, instead of this click-click-click-click approach.
6 • ArchBang (by mardimus on 2025-04-14 03:49:45 GMT from Finland)
@CorpSouth
You claimed that ArchBang is a distribution which come in outta nowhere? If I'm not totally wrong it has been around here since 2011...
7 • Containers (by Cheetah Haven on 2025-04-14 04:42:13 GMT from United Kingdom)
Containers? I run a slew of docker containers on my container-based atomic server. I run podman containers on my laptop. I use distrobox on my server and my laptop. My Android phone is currently running the containerized linux terminal newly available on Android 15. I think I run containers, yes.
8 • EndeavourOS (by bin on 2025-04-14 05:53:21 GMT from United Kingdom)
@5 Quote:-
"EndeavourOS is a rolling release Linux distribution based on Arch Linux."
Note 'based'.
The default install of KDE Plasma gives you a working DE, a browser, media player and a few utilities. You do the rest. Nothing like Mint or MX
Custom install you can chose your DE and cut out the minimal applications if you wish.
Should you wish to don a hair shirt you can of course start with Arch.
Endeavour makes Arch accessible and it works. Having tried various other attempts at that I can say that Endeavour have got it just right. IMVHO
9 • Shebang (by Hank on 2025-04-14 07:02:43 GMT from Germany)
Shebang is one example of a linux plague, take a working distribution, that is the hard work of others, in this case Artix.
Follow the instructions on the Artix wiki to install open Box WM.
Mess up the job by creating a non functional version, make loud claims of having developed a new and greatest distribution.
Frustrate users old and new. Is this all a destructive tactic from big tech or just stupid schoolkid stuff.
10 • containers (by Felix on 2025-04-14 07:02:57 GMT from Germany)
I use FreeBSDs Linuxulator to run a Linux Browser with widivine support to be able to watch drm content.
11 • EndeavourOS (by Tom Darais on 2025-04-14 08:19:43 GMT from United States)
Thanks for the review of EndeavourOS. I run EndeavourOS LXQT on both new and old PCs/laptops alike and it works great. It has been my mainstay distro for months. I'm glad a graphical installer isn't installed by default in EOS because I much prefer Octopi over Pamac, and it's a simple matter to type "yay octopi" from the onset and then use that for pretty much everything else. I have discovered that Snaps work well in EndeavourOS as well (for that oddball program not found in the AUR). Since Octopi is based on Pacman it works flawlessly for installing and updating packages.
Thanks for mentioning the memory footprint of Plasma, It makes me even happier I'm using LXQT. I find LXQT to be very functional and efficient. It does everything I need it to do. Plus, LXQT gives me all of the Wayland and compositor options I could dream of, and they just keep getting better and better!
12 • EndeavourOS (by Markus on 2025-04-14 08:49:54 GMT from Germany)
In order to use Discover with pacman, you have to install packagekit-qt6.
One thing I love about Arch Linux is its very good website, including the Packages section, where you can find every detail of a package including dependencies that are optional:
packagekit-qt6 (optional) - to manage packages from Arch Linux repositories (not recommended, use at your own risk)
I prefer using pacman in a terminal, so I can't tell how well this works, but it's not like this isn't possible at all...
13 • EndeavourOS and Arch (by thatguy on 2025-04-14 09:17:11 GMT from United States)
The key difference between EndeavourOS and Arch for me, aside from the obvious ones, is that EOS uses dracut rather than mkinitcpio for building the initrd, rendering those parts of the archwiki irrelevant and possibly leading to confusion if using plymouth or anything else that might expect mkinitcpio to be there, i.e. plymouth-set-default-theme -R won't work.
I really like EOS. It works as advertised and installs a fairly lean plasma setup, free of the pim stuff among other things. Not a huge fan of the purple theming, but whatever. It's the distro I turn to when I want to expunge Windows from a machine as quickly and easily as possible.
For gui package management, I've always liked pamac much better than octopi, and since yay is preinstalled, pamac-aur is trivially easy to install.
As for containers, no, I have not used them and don't foresee doing so. My pc is an entertainment center more than anything else. As long as I can organize and enjoy my media collections I'm happy. VPN and Linux's security through obscurity is all I find necessary for my use case.
14 • EndeavourOS (by rich52 on 2025-04-14 12:09:32 GMT from United States)
Been using it for about 4 years. . . .I'm a satisfied customer. No complaints. KDE works well. Kernel updates work. . Overall a very good distro. Been Distro-hopping for 25 years and finally settled on this one. Couldn't be happier with it and the community support is very good.
Rich ;)
15 • EndeavourOS (by mh3g on 2025-04-14 16:27:30 GMT from Italy)
EndeavourOS mi piace molto ma ho sempre avuto problemi negli aggiornamenti dei pacchetti che con altre distro arch non succedono tranne che con Cachy. In piu versioni recenti. Di solito si rompono le dipendenze e non si riesce più ad aggiornare neppure manualmente. Ho fatto dei test utilizzando contemporaneamente Manjaro e le dipendenze e gli aggiornamenti e le dipendenze hanno funzionato.
16 • distrobox from the command line (by Scott Dowdle on 2025-04-14 16:58:03 GMT from United States)
I don't routinely run software from other distros but when I do, distrobox works well... and its command line interface is easy enough to use. Don't fear the CLI. It is also easy to add entries for GUI applications to your desktop applications menu making them very easy to access.
17 • Endeavour (by ambrose the bunny on 2025-04-14 17:29:37 GMT from United States)
I've had Arch and Arch-based distros installed in the past, but my concern with them has always been the breakage on updates. That, and the size of the updates, since my isp occasionally puts on data caps.
I tried Endeavour last week, and so far I'm really impressed.The installation was smooth, as have been the updates, at least so far. I've had some problems with AUR packages not building (cryptmount), but that's an Arch problem, not Endeavour. I can usually make the fixes, but I'm retired and really don't want to do that anymore if I don't have to. Almost all the packages I use are there, and the ones that aren't I can probably grab from debian.
Frankly, I think Endeavour deserves a 9.0 rating. I've noticed over the years that the guys from the Netherlands usually put out pretty solid distros.
18 • Containers (by John on 2025-04-14 18:07:43 GMT from Canada)
At home on Slackware, no. When I had FreeBSD I would have items running in a Jail, which I still think is better than anything Linux currently have. Someday I may give Linux Containers a try.
FWIW, unveil/pledge on OpenBSD is now my favorite type of container type environment.
19 • Shebang != Crunchbang (by Will on 2025-04-14 18:44:09 GMT from United States)
I saw, shebang and thought, wow, are they reviving Crunchbang? But, alas, that's not the case Crunchbang was fun and worked. Shebang is pretty far from working.
20 • EndeavourOS and applications in containers (by if the chips are united on 2025-04-14 20:21:45 GMT from Sweden)
Maybe EndeavourOS is the best OS for (VM) testing (many) up-to-date desktop environments and software. Side by side.
budgie, enlightenment, gnome, lxde, lxqt, mate, ... and many more.
Optionally there is still Nix to use newer versions of software ... and many more.
Btw., there are Snaps, Flatpacks ... and many more,
Docker ... and many more.
More forks?
>9.000 good ideas (and many more) - but no cooperation, communication, concept ...
Far behind the good ol' new ways.
21 • most of systemd services are run as containers (in namespaces) (by enihcam on 2025-04-15 02:27:25 GMT from Hong Kong)
so everyone should have run their applications in containers already.
22 • Containers (by Ed on 2025-04-15 09:49:03 GMT from Sweden)
I run one Fedora-based container on Fedora Silverblue with a couple of CLI tools and GUI applications. It is working ver well.
23 • @19 Will: (by dragonmouth on 2025-04-15 10:13:19 GMT from United States)
I believe Bunsen Labs Linux is the successor to CrunchBang.
24 • SystemD and Containers (by Slappy McGee on 2025-04-15 13:41:24 GMT from United States)
@21 I read some material provided in here by Jesse the other day wrt SystemD functionality etc. Other inits were covered and compared. I learned a lot. What did not occur to me is that notion, "..so everyone should have run their applications in containers already."
I'm assuming what's meant is that those other inits, SysV, runit etc, do not require containers and that SystemD does. Am I correct?
25 • Containers (by Penguinx86 on 2025-04-15 14:26:46 GMT from United States)
I don’t run any applications in containers. Instead, I run whole operating systems in Virtualbox.
26 • containers (by Jesse on 2025-04-15 14:50:53 GMT from Canada)
@24: "I'm assuming what's meant is that those other inits, SysV, runit etc, do not require containers and that SystemD does. Am I correct?"
systemd doesn't really run services in containers. It can run services in their own namespace, which is kinda, sorta similar if you squint and don't think about it too much.
The poster in @21 was stretching the idea of what a container is a lot, probably for humour purposes.
As to the various init software - systemd makes it easier to run services in separate namespaces and/or cgroups. The other init implementations _can_ do this, they usually just don't. Mostly because there isn't much of a practical benefit to doing so. It's one of those cases where fans of systemd see this as a nice feature systemd offers. People who don't like systemd see it as unnecessary bloat.
27 • Containers (by Just4fun on 2025-04-15 17:20:49 GMT from Sweden)
I try to run as much as possible in containers to avoid data leaks. On my Framework laptop I therefore use Qubes OS, and on the home network basically everything runs in VMs and containers (Proxmox), even the firewall.
28 • Once Bitten... (by Tad Generic on 2025-04-15 20:45:53 GMT from Canada)
I wanted to like Arch. I tried every distro that tried to make the install and maintenance easier, since I'm long past any desire to geek out over an operating system.
One by one they all ended up failing, with my having to search forums in order to fix broken updates. Manjaro lasted the longest, but it, too, ended up testing my patience past rational limits.
Now I run LTS/stable versions of Debian derivatives and stay away from anything "bleeding edge". The PC is supposed to serve Me, not the opposite...
29 • Endeavour and Manjaro, no live testing (by Jan on 2025-04-15 22:15:42 GMT from The Netherlands)
I have tested the latest Endeavour and Manjaro (again) from a Ventoy USB-stick (my preference is KDE).
Both give me a screen without task-bar or actions-window, the only possibility it gives is to install to the HDD/SSD.
So obviously there is no live-testing possible.
In the past both succeeded in live-testing (if I remember well), however the KDE-based distros suffered from fatal freezing (some KDE-distros have/had that).
MY only normal (easy) ARCH-based live-USB experience was with REBORNOS.
I think I better stick to MX-KDE / Fedora / Mint-Cinnamon / Ubuntu / Debian-testing (with big management teams).
30 • Correction (by CorpSouth on 2025-04-16 01:44:21 GMT from United States)
I guess I was so flabbergasted by SheBang that I got the names mixed up, my bad!
But yeah I think we've been down this road before, hopefully SheBang course corrects before it dies a laughingstock.
31 • Live testing vs Hard Install (by Slappy McGee on 2025-04-16 14:43:18 GMT from United States)
@29 I have noted over the years that many distros offering live CD/DVD to test the OS do not necessarily behave the same once installed. Yes it is good to ferret out hardware incompatibilities, but sometimes my hopes were dashed as I ran the live environment then installed. Manjaro was perennially the worst offender for me on my machines, several of them. But there were others, too.
I'd say that half of the distros I first ran live off disc ended up causing me to feel betrayed after seeing it run so well prior to installing to my hard drive or SSD/NVME.
32 • Manjaro (by Slappy McGee on 2025-04-16 14:45:49 GMT from United States)
Just to clarify my live experiences with Manjaro were on bootable USB, not CD/DVD. I'm not a fan of VM, so I always created discs or bootable sticks.
33 • Arch and Postmarket (by CronJob on 2025-04-17 13:24:44 GMT from Belgium)
Endeavour performance is better than many other distros, but it cannot reach Arch performance, just the lack of unnecessary packages in Arch installation already make it fast enough to run in a lot of older machines with just a Window Manager.
Also, Arch isn't so difficult to install, people can just use the installer: "archinstall" just write it and press enter after the system boots from your desired installation media, if you are using internet by cable you just need to do that, if using wireless you need to connect to it by the command line before writing "archinstall" and pressing enter. Of course, it is still a more technical distro than Linux Mint and such, but not close to the impractical idea that people think of when they imagine the installation.
Changing the subject, PostmarketOS have a lot of potential, people talk a lot about Linux phone and all, but they seem to be the only project that are putting the work to adapt the existing hardware and provide a OS that's community oriented, things aren't perfect at all, but it does remind of the starting stages of CyanogenMod and Lineage OS. I hope their potential can be reached, there is not many options for an OS that is distant from Big Tech and comunity oriented for phones.
34 • Containers (by Tuxedoar on 2025-04-17 19:27:58 GMT from Argentina)
I use pure LXC containers in Debian. Most of them, to run some HTTP service. I seldom use them to run some GUI app.
Cheers.
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Choose from a wide range of laptops and PCs in various sizes and shapes at TUXEDOComputers.com. Every machine comes pre-installed and ready-to-run with Linux. Full 24 months of warranty and lifetime support included!
Learn more about our full service package and all benefits from buying at TUXEDO.
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| Star Labs |
Star Labs - Laptops built for Linux.
View our range including the highly anticipated StarFighter. Available with coreboot open-source firmware and a choice of Ubuntu, elementary, Manjaro and more. Visit Star Labs for information, to buy and get support.
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