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submitted 3 weeks ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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What other approaches do folks use to deterministically customize Linux?

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[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for the detailed reply, much appreciated!

Any rough edges you've encountered yet? Like using USB peripherals, or networking shenanigans? I'm assuming it's using the host network driver by default, and maybe bind mounting /dev/bus/usb for USB pass through?

Think I'll really dig into distrobox today.

[–] hisao@ani.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Any rough edges you’ve encountered yet?

No problems so far, but I didn't try anything USB-related. Two of the more interesting programs I use it actively for are Ubuntu distrobox for Ultimate Doom Builder (level editor, works with GPU) and toolbox for natpmpc (utility for port-forwarding). I made a systemd service on my host system that calls toolbox run natpmpc -a 1 0 tcp 60 -g "$GATEWAY" 2>/dev/null in a loop to establish port-forwarding for my ProtonVPN connection (running on the host ofc), parses the assigned port and calls qbittorrent's web api to set forwarded port there.