This is pure operator error, all of these systems are well documented and are literally linux 101. If the response is “how are normal users supposed to?” the answer is normal users don’t use command line tools.

The person saying that they’re switching to Kinoite is in for a rude surprise when they find out that the virt-manager flatpak everyone is migrating to is written and maintained by the Kinoite maintainer, we helped with the QEMU extension because moving this stuff to userspace is something everyone agrees on.

Hopefully you’ve learned that there are people that claim they need super technical things like virt-manager on the image and yet can’t manage a simple linux service. “Forced Updates”. Images like Bazzite are the antithesis for people who want to be experts without putting in the work.

The terminal motd tells you exactly how to use the packages involved when you open it.

brew install btop vim

https://docs.projectbluefin.io/command-line/#installing-applications

I feel like they don’t take the time to think things through and throw together. Instead, they throw together a new thing to address the shortcomings of the previous five things.

This is a weird statement it’s designed this way on purpose. You seem to be looking for “one package manager to rule them all” in a world that’s purposely splitting things up.

All the supported IDEs in bluefin are brew packages and tailscale is included.

No idea on the selinux stuff though.

My thesis is essentially that we’re creating too many package package managers with too many compromises.

Your issues appear to be config/documentation related. What apps am I missing out on by not using system package managers?

package managers, you can do essentially anything.

Yeah, like break your computer, no thanks. :)

No they would brew install neovim. System-level package management goes away entirely, that’s the point.

What new package managers? homebrew has been around for years. What problems are you describing? If you mean read only root that has been around since the 1980s. The problem as you describe it has been removed, you move on from package based entropy to image based systems.

This isn’t a trend, modern linux is this way, it’s just the desktop that has been behind until now.

Bluefin maintainer here, you’ve described how Bluefin works except it’s ~/.local/bin.

I am pretty sure we have not been developing package managers lol.