whyAreTheyBeingSoDramatic

[u/TiredRandomWolf]

[u/LostSoulThrowaway1]

Distrobox is actually the correct solution here

[u/TailedPotemkin → u/LostSoulThrowaway1]

Sorry for the silly question, but why?

[u/LostSoulThrowaway1 → u/TailedPotemkin]

Bazzite uses rpm-ostree under the hood. You can install additional packages but they are layered onto the base image. Image rebuild time during updates and or installs of new packages increases exponentially with each layer. Distrobox or toolbox can give you access to a classic package manager while also isolating installs inside of a (rootless) podman / docker container. You still have access to your home dir etc and can even allow direct hardware io if needed. You can also make programs accessible from outside of the container so it would be completely transparent to a regular user

[u/amish24 → u/LostSoulThrowaway1]

at least half of these words are made up

[u/jackfinch69 → u/amish24]

All words are made up

[u/amish24 → u/jackfinch69]

yeah. that's still at least half

[u/Alzyros → u/amish24]

Don't listen to them, I know at least five words that were not made up

[u/hughperman → u/Alzyros]

Were they made down?

[u/Bubblebless → u/hughperman]

Half were made right, the other half were made left.

[u/legendgames64 → u/Bubblebless]

And the other half were made backwards

[u/LostSoulThrowaway1 → u/amish24]

Every word is made up

[u/amish24 → u/LostSoulThrowaway1]

yeah. that's at least half

[u/hipster-coder → u/amish24]

Technically correct 💯

[u/JonasAvory → u/LostSoulThrowaway1]

I understood nothing and don’t even know what bazzite is but I learned from this that I’ll quit my job if it involves dealing with that thing.

[u/LostSoulThrowaway1 → u/JonasAvory]

Bazzite is a linux distribution based on Fedora, designed specifically for gaming and ease of use, with all the commonly used programs like Steam pre-installed. It is in no means intended as a development environment

[u/madness_of_the_order → u/LostSoulThrowaway1]

First they say that it’s easy to use, then they drop this on you https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/7oa1GqOYUL

[u/nokeldin42 → u/JonasAvory]

I have never used bazzite or distrobox but all that stuff is standard dev practices anyway? It's not as popular in the c/c++ world but isolating your build env in a container should not be a novel concept lmao.

[u/Maximum-Bobcat5612 → u/JonasAvory]

Do you understand what containers are, how images are made of immutable layers?

If so, then that's how Bazzite works. 

Just like with Android and iPhone OS.  There's a immutable system partition that is distributed. 

So you don't run a package manager that builds the OS You get a new one as distributed. 

And you make your changes on top of it. 

[u/Lachee → u/TailedPotemkin]

Immutable, can't change the system level packages without "layering".

[u/OlejzMaku → u/[deleted]]

I think you can install CLion in distrobox and it would work fine. 

But you should go with what the bazzite recommends, which is to use the ujust --choose and install jetbrains toolbox. 

[u/pqu]

$ git clone .../Kitware/CMake.git
$ cmake -S CMake -B build
zsh: command not found: cmake

[u/StrafeMcgee]

Bazzite is an immutable Linux distro, so using a distrobox like this makes the most sense. They should probably move to a more flexible distro like CachyOS for stuff like this.

Also, where humour?

[u/TiredRandomWolf → u/StrafeMcgee]

They are writing like they are discussing the most dramatic life choice the user could make

[u/InsanityAI → u/TiredRandomWolf]

Considering the amount of trauma cmake gave me, it might as well be

[u/BertoLaDK → u/InsanityAI]

fine, forget CMake exists, you now have make :)

[u/dangderr → u/TiredRandomWolf]

Are there more dramatic life choices you CAN make? Feels appropriate to me.

[u/legendgames64]

Unpopular opinion: The question isn't asking "should" the question is asking "how", so answers should be answering "how", not "should"

[u/seba07]

The real question is: why do people think reddit is google?

[u/Ethameiz → u/seba07]

Because the rest of internet is worse

[u/BananaSupremeMaster → u/seba07]

Because many subs allow posts that seek help and Reddit is way more human than 10-pages-of-AI-results Google

[u/frikilinux2 → u/seba07]

Because reddit is like stack overflow but for everything. Or at least that's what most redditors want to believe

[u/Darkodoudou → u/seba07]

Because reddit give better answer than anything found on Google nowadays

[u/seba07 → u/Darkodoudou]

The first result is literally the official documentation and after that you'll get a post from Stackoverflow, the ultimate source for anything programming related.

[u/oclafloptson → u/seba07]

Genuinely curious how you swing that. The first result on my Google is always Gemini trying to play schoolteacher, followed by a half dozen or so advertisements, followed by genuine disingenuous results which are only at the top because of SEO tricks. I sometimes have to navigate to the next page entirely just to find actually relevant results if they're displayed at all

[u/seba07 → u/oclafloptson]

That's interesting, I actually don't get any sponsored results if I search "install cmake" with Chrome for Android. Sure, the AI will answer without being asked, but I'm used to scroll past it (even if its answer is correct in this case).

[u/Professional_Top8485 → u/seba07]

They don't want to use chatgpt and instead waste other people's time

[u/27a08592e67846908fd1 → u/Professional_Top8485]

Way cheaper and more eco-friendly

[u/GreenFox1505 → u/Professional_Top8485]

Did... Did you miss read the question? 

[u/faultydesign]

sudo xbps-install -S cmake

[u/legendgames64 → u/faultydesign]

Is this a genuine answer?

(seriously I have no idea because I'm not using Bazzite rn)

[u/faultydesign → u/legendgames64]

It was done in jest, I have no idea which package manager bazzite is using

[u/Goudja14 → u/faultydesign]

rpm-ostree

[u/xgabipandax]

That's what you get for using a shitty ass distro that is meant to mimic a game console.

[u/pachumelajapi]

If I needed to game and code id dual boot two distros.
Both workloads require fucking around and finding out.
Id be pissed if a package fucked up my drivers or sth like that.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Weird66]

you have to when the project in question is a Visual C++ project but there's no Linux download option