Basically dual booting but in terminal. The ability to use Fedora/Pop!_OS with arch linux is truly amazing! I am able to use AUR in a “safe” and contained environment. Truly, the dev deserves a lot of credit for what he did.
Has anybody gave it a try? Give your opinions here! Gobble gobble!
Only wished I could run endeavouros inside distrobox…but it’s arch so…gobble?
Pros and cons of using Distrobox
+Ability to “dual boot” a linux distro in a contained environment
+Works on almost all distros
+Consumes little to no resources (the package itself, not the apps running in the containment)
+Runs pretty well and I had little to no issues
+Cam export apps in your main distro.
-Limited distros (you can’t use distros in distrobox that are not in some websites that will show up in terminal. They will either complain you have limited access or none at all.)
-You need to “export” the apps in your main distro if you want to use them. If you uninstall the app before removing it manually using distrobox, it will be stick in your main distro until you remove it manually with a file manager of sorts.
-Terminal only. No GUI (as far as I know?)
-Pamac and/or similar apps won’t work. Needs further testing.
?Games from the AUR weren’t tested either.
!“distrobox enter --name {NAME OF CONTAINER}” needs to be run every time you open up the terminal in order to access your container. Can be solved by adding a custom profile/shortcut. Haven’t tested that yet.
I tried on Fedora and Pop!_OS. It should work on Endeavour but I don’t find the point of doing so unless you want to use apps in a contained environment or something (I use arch in distrobox because of app availability and easy of access)
I used Fedora to test out Distrobox. I just used “sudo dnf install distrobox” and then created a container. It’s a bit hard to setup. What I used was "distrobox-create --name {NAME OF CONTAINER} --image archlinux.
If you use EndeavourOS, I am pretty sure it’s in the AUR or in the official repository so it will install all the necessary dependencies?
After you created the container, you need to run “distrobox enter {NAME OF CONTAINER}”. Pretty sure you can create a terminal shortcut to launch a profile that runs the command automatically.
Ya i just ried it on EOS and it’s trying to download stuff from fedora to get going. I don’t understand enough about it yet. Will it work if i run Fedora in a vm?
By default it downloads a fedora iso. What you are doing right now is creating a fedora container inside distrobox. I added a link to the github that has the tutorial. I hope it helps. Gobble gobble!
Ya i am looking at it but again a lot of these videos don’t really explain much. Theya assume too much that everyone watching it has as much knowledge as they do.
I wish I could properly explain the steps I did, but I haven’t practiced my English in quite a while.
Let’s start from 0. What distro are you trying to install in distrobox?
Okay… i am installing Fedora silverblue in vmware just to see if i can make it work with something since it’s already set up? Let me try some things first to see if i can see it in action. Maybe it don’t work in vm?
Yes i installed distrobox and podman on EOS but when i tried to create a container it tries to download stuff from Fedora instead of letting me create a container. Well see what it does on Fedora.
I tried it with docker, there was an error message that docker daemon is off. then i tried the command dockerd, it didn’t work. I’m not familiar with docker, so I tried podman.
