It works on MacOS/Windows, unlike systemd. Therefore it's well suited for development environment setups for polyglot teams. https://devenv.sh/ is one example that uses it to do just that. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Sounds like nix using devenv[1] also would solve this problem. https://devenv.sh/. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

Software developers often want to customize: 1. Their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow). 2. Their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here. 3. Or even their operating systems: for... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Https://devenv.sh/ and nix in general are great for setting up dev environments. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

2) A way to run services apps depend on (databases, job runners, cache etc). I am going to suggest one of the Nix based tools that do those things:

  - https://devenv.sh/ (I use this at work).

- Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

There are a lot of third-party Linux apps built with GTK4/Libadwaita. If you just to to https://flathub.org and click on random apps a lot of them will use GTK. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I would recommend taking a look at Flatpak. Source: 7 months ago

Flathub flatpak format apps/games for linux desktop, does not require any specific linux distribution just that flatpak is present on the system. Source: 9 months ago

Which X clients are these? You didn't name any so let's just look at some of the popular and recent flathub apps: https://flathub.org/ I see a lot of games, chat apps, text editors, photo apps, office apps. These all will work fine in XWayland and XQuartz. But also, it's relatively easy to get them running on Wayland natively. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

If you're worried about the potential of breaking things, I'd pick the Fedora Kinoite distro. Up to date gaming support, stable and extremely difficult to break. Install apps from Flathub using the built-in Discover software store and go nuts. Source: 9 months ago