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toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by beta_tester@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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toolbox is preinstalled on fedora silverblue/kinoite whereas distrobox isn't. What's the advantage of one vs the other? Why is toolbox preinstalled and not distrobox?

edit: thank you guys! I guess for me this means that I'll use distrobox because it's much more mature or documentation is a little bit better and I do not need (or have) fedora's support

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[–] Vincent@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but for me, the main benefit is how uneventful major distro upgrades are. Yesterday I updated to Fedora 39, and it was so anticlimactic to reboot and then be like: is it over? But that was really all there was to it.