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Thanks, I'll look more into it once I get more time but from a glance this seems a bit too convoluted for my needs.
No this is the safe approach. Installing a 3rd party
devel
package may likely break your systemIf it breaks, it breaks... But I'll give it a try on my laptop with PopOS
PopOS needs completely different packages though.
They base on Ubuntu LTS but ship newer mesa, kernel and maybe more.
Not sure if every component will be newer, so I would also expect conflicts.
Using an upstream provided container really sounds like a good solution.
Yeah, I'm aware it has different packages but I need to familiarise myself with docker first either way. Eventually I plan to switch both systems to PopOS Cosmic DE 24.04 once it fully releases so for now I'm spending most time just tinkering and trying to get more familiar with Linux. Pretty much all SW I use runs on it anyways too. Right now I want to get DavinciResolve up and running with my GPU.
Did you try COSMIC before?
You can do so on PopOS or I guess also Ubuntu. I personally use ublue Cosmic
davinci resolve may also run better in a docker / podman container
There also is a flatpak script that you should try. You need to download the binary for proprietary reasons, but packaging it as flatpak will assure
I did try and I like it a lot but I don't want to daily drive testing build.
Wasn't aware of the flatpack script, will check it out, thx!
COSMIC is not so much "testing" as in "many bugs", I basically found none. But they just lack maaany essential features. It is really breat to get a desktop that implements nice fancy stuff from Plasma etc. straight from the beginning.
I am not sure how ready it will be when it launches, as in features. But it is pretty nice and the apps are damn fast. I use the appstore on Fedora Kinoite when searching Flatpak apps. It has no native package integration so it does what I want, really nice.
I have no idea. That docker thing on windows is basically running a Linux VM (or run Linux parallel like with WSL).
On Linux docker is a container. It needs namespaces but no virtualization. It runs on your kernel.
Never used docker desktop, thats just some GUI. Just install Docker, or Podman.