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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whenever you get bored:

~$ sudo docker run -it --rm archlinux bash
[root@5452124778b3 /]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Its easier to use distrobox with podman

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 year ago

Could be. I know docker and this looked like a nail.

[-] anonono@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

this coming from someone who used podman for years for hours for development every day.

podman is cancer, it's way better to use docker rootless.

podman will break if you sneeze at it, and the only recourse you will find in github is to podman system reset which stinks of bad programming.

docker rootless never breaks, podman may die if you cancel a download because the devs were either inexperienced or bad and instead of protecting the state with atomic filesystem operations they leave dirty files in working directories which make it fail in random and unexpected ways.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I've personally only had good experiences with podman

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Wait...is that all it takes to install arch in a docker container? Does this include a GUI or is it for terminal Haxxorz only?

[-] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Terminal only. Though in theory you should be able to expose a port to access an X or Wayland session remotely to use a GUI, but I haven't tried this.

[-] CeeBee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You're basically describing DistroBox, which does exactly that. It's amazing.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago
[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. It even pulls the image for you if you don't have it.

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