I am running Chimera Linux which I really love for a bunch of reasons. I have a need to run a few applications that are not going to work with MUSL, and are not presently offered via flatpak. Thus, containers I think are my go-to. II was thinking of spinning up a minimal Void linux to use these apps. I don’t have experience running containers at this point and have struggled to understand how to interact with them.
I like simple, and Chimera offers the following solutions -
- Containerd
- Podman
- Bubble wrap
- Chroot
I am pretty sure I can get away with a terminal only setup for these apps, but what if I need a GUI? Is there a good choice among these for security? Resources are not at a premium on my laptop. What do you prefer and why?
TIA!
I usually spin up a distrobox container of Arch for anything I need that I don’t want to, or can’t compile myself. Both CLI and GUI programs work, and you can use podman as the backend.
If you are building apps from source, consider creating an actual Chimera Linux apk. It is surprisingly easy. I like keeping everything under the control of the package manager.
That is assuming you are a Chimera Linux user of course.
My main distro these days is Gentoo, but I definitely feel the same. I’ll write an ebuild anytime it’s feasible, and Gentoo has some pretty great tools for helping me keep up with updates for things.