Strit comments on What's the proper way to install every-day CLI tools on immutable distributions like Fedora Bluefin?

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 4 points 6 months ago (9 children)

To be honest. Immutable distros are not for everyone. Tinkerers especially would not be suited to use them, because of all the "restrictions" in place.

Better to find another distro in that case.

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I'm not sure.

I'm a professional tinkerer and I run Debian stable. OK ok it's not an immutable distro but my point is that I do tinker, just NOT with my main OS.

I'll tinker in containers, in VMs, in my ~/bin etc but NOT in what hosts all that.

So I would argue that what's important for tinkerers is to establish clear boundaries on what they want to tinker on and what they do NOT want to tinker on, what can change vs what should never.

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[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 0 points 6 months ago (6 children)

But a simple thing like "install a random cli tool to run on host" is often not easy on immutable distros, so it's usually just more convinient with an oldschool distro in those cases.

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[–] j0rge@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

It's one command in Bluefin, same as everything else.

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I don't think it actually is. It's only like that the very first time when you haven't you this specific distribution itself. Once you know how the few extra step and understand the core principle, it's trivial.

PS: I did tinker with NixOS, SteamOS and ROCKNIX.

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