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Developing GUI app on Immutable Distros
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Spin up a VM with Aurora, and try to develop a simple GUI app in a distrobox yourself. See what it can do out of the box. I've been practicing getting a problematic VPN installed that way (on Bazzite), so that when I move to the bare metal version, I'll be ready to go.
Also, if you're unsure about distrobox, it's just a wrapper for
podman. If you need detailed settings beyond what distrobox can offer, you should look into podman's options.How did you go with the VPN? I will be looking at that next. I'm using Proton VPN which has an rpm package, but if that doesn't work I can fallback to manually setting up the WireGuard config.
ProtonVPN actually has a flatpak, and it worked for me when I tested it out a couple months ago.
But my personal use case is with Private Internet Access. I basically had to install it from source, tweak the installer by commenting out some lines that tried to write to
/usr(which is immutable), install and modify the systemd daemon service manually, then install the.desktopfile for my local user. And for some reason, the OpenVPN tunnel doesn't work, but WireGuard works fine.I may try my hand at making a flatpak or RPM for a cleaner install, but it's seriously made me reconsider if I want to keep this provider, move to one like AirVPN, or go with a different immutable distro like NixOS or openSUSE MicroOS.
If ProtonVPN has its package in the Fedora repos or as a downloadable RPM file, it should be as easy as
rpm-ostree install protonvpnorrpm-ostree install /path/to/protonvpn.rpm.