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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • Heh, Distrobox came to my mind when writing my comment. I haven’t used it enough to recommend it yet though.

    I recall there are some other development container projects, but can’t remember the names right now.

    Development containers are nice in theory. In practice, sometimes development environments are so complex that it might not be worth the trouble. But it’s good to have options.


  • Distro packages don’t really matter much in my experience. You either use project-specific package management or install stuff with Homebrew or Nix package manager. Sometimes maybe even containers.

    One problem with distro packages is that you can only install one version. And in practise a lot of software projects have outdated dependencies. Sometimes you have multiple projects with conflicting version dependencies.