[winswitch] single, homogeneous and flexible operating (OS) context

[Mario Marietto]

First of all,I don't take into consideration the apps that can be installed
through flatpaks,snap or app images,because I don't like to use these
systems. I'm a traditional user of linux,I have used it since the 90's. I
prefer to use the traditional packaging systems used by debian,fedora,arch.
I've read that in some cases the snap system in Ubuntu contains obscure
parts of code. And I've checked by myself how much can those systems
complicate the management of the OS if they get jammed or if one does not
want them because he/she/ wants to streamline the system. So,I really like
the idea to use apt/apt-get, dnf/yum, pacman and yay all together from one
only shell, just like you'd use them on their native distributions. I may
want to install or remove an application on one of those OSes because it
does not work anymore and you have no time to fix it. You know that
sometimes it takes time to fix the broken part,time that you don't have.
Luckily it still works for the remaining one or two OSes. I may like to use
some specific distro just because I like,without particular reason,for some
time. Maybe there are also different technical reasons why I want to have
that fusion,tied to the libraries used. Some libraries could improve the
stability and the speed of the systems,some others could do it less. It
seems that some good distros are coming out these days,following the same
idea : a couple of them are : blendOS,BedRock. So,it seems that it makes
sense. Probably the approach that I want to use has already been used. But
anyway,I do what I enjoy. So,I don't care. I'm retired from work. I have
time to learn and to experiment. I will not steal time from my daily
job,because I don't have one.

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 4:45 AM xpra--- via shifter-users <
shifter-users at lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote:

> On 2023-03-07 09:48, Mario Marietto via shifter-users wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I would like to integrate Ubuntu,Fedora,Arch or maybe some other distro
> > into one single,homogeneous and flexible operating (OS) context. I
> > would
> > like to use Ubuntu (22.04) as the host OS and the rest of the OSes
> > (Fedora,Arch) will be virtualized within different virtual machines (I
> > don't want to use containers,I know that they are a better choice,but I
> > want to understand if a virtual machine is good anyway when it is very
> > well
> > configured). The idea is also to use qemu + kvm with the nographic and
> > no
> > vga options enabled,without virt-manager or boxes. I don't want to open
> > and
> > close the virtual machine graphical interface every time I want to run
> > an
> > application. I find it much more comfortable if I can run every
> > application
> > and command within one only terminal by premising,for example,a letter
> > indicating to which distribution the command or application belongs to.
> > Or
> > I could tell xpra to open the fedora or the arch linux terminal. For
> > sure
> > it will be much faster to configure,but it has less scenic effect.
>
> I don't understand the point, goal, purpose of having lets say
> libreoffice run on Debian, firefox on *buntu etc...
>
> What does this get you???? I am just clearly missing the forest for the
> trees or soemthing in this??
>
> Am curious as to whats the end goal and what this achieves v. using one
> distro to run your stuff??? ?
>
> Interested to understand the goal... Thanks..
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-- 
Mario.