One thing I'm doing differently in Arch this time is I'm trying out installing as many things as possible as flatpaks. I've successfully ignored them until now. Surprisingly, a lot of my apps are already packaged as flatpaks.
The other thing I'm borrowing is distrobox
+podman
. I didn't know about that before. This seems useful for dev environments.
flatpaks + distrobox seem to be at least 50% of VanillaOS. So I'm borrowing those and then I get to keep the simple, mutable OS with Arch.
That being said, I've never had a problem with pacman
breaking my system, so I don't see major value in doing this... other than... it's helping me procrastinate! I should be doing real work right now. ๐
Neat. I'll have to check this out as well. Thanks!