I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.
Install as much as possible via flatpak
Install a bunch of other stuff in distrobox (with podman backend)
That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.
Not that I ever had any problems with native pacman installs though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess my pacman -Syu command runs faster now. That’s something…
Not judging but just fyi, that’s like the worst of both worlds tbh. The point of installing independently of the base system is that the system is immutable and easy to roll back to a previous state, if you use a mutable system and also install packages with other means, you’re working around a limitation that isn’t even there and wasting more space to get almost none of the benefits (aside from easier permission control for Flatpaks)
I recently brought over some ideas from VanillaOS over to my Arch install.
That gives me like 50% (idk fake number) of the features from VanillaOS, but I get to keep control over my system.
Not that I ever had any problems with native
pacmaninstalls though… so… not sure how much benefit I’m really getting from doing this. I guess mypacman -Syucommand runs faster now. That’s something…Not judging but just fyi, that’s like the worst of both worlds tbh. The point of installing independently of the base system is that the system is immutable and easy to roll back to a previous state, if you use a mutable system and also install packages with other means, you’re working around a limitation that isn’t even there and wasting more space to get almost none of the benefits (aside from easier permission control for Flatpaks)
Why are you even running arch at that point, for the DE updates?
Byebye to your storage 😆
Luckily, I’m able to afford more than an 8GB SSD on my laptop. 😆
$ podman system df TYPE TOTAL ACTIVE SIZE RECLAIMABLE Images 2 1 2.775GB 2.293GB (83%) Containers 1 0 3.492GB 3.492GB (100%) Local Volumes 2 2 0B 0B (0%) $ flatpak list | wc -l 65 $ du -hs /var/lib/flatpak 12G /var/lib/flatpak $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/cryptroot 234G 31G 191G 14% /A 256GB drive is on the smaller side and I’m barely at 14%. Storage is cheap.