Re: Question about toolbox purpose/usage

[Alejandro Saez Morollon]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:35 AM Sergio Belkin <sebelk(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi,
>  I've been playing a bit with toolbox, what is it intended for?
>
>  I understand that was intended primarily for immutable OS. But
>  documentation says that it can be used on the Workstation edition too.
>  AFAIK it's only useful if you don't want to mess up your /usr of your host
>  operating system by installing apps. Beyond that, you can happily destroy
>  your very $HOME, from overwriting dot files to removing any other of your
>  important files.
>  Am I missing something?
>  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>  Thanks in advance!
>
>  
Yes, you can totally destroy all your files. That's the "bad" side of
it.
Look at the bright side: you don't need to deal with different dotfiles
depending on your platform.

I use toolbox every single day, I can switch versions, try testing packages
and even switch distributions.

Hope it helps.




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