toolbox is preinstalled on fedora silverblue/kinoite whereas distrobox isn’t. What’s the advantage of one vs the other? Why is toolbox preinstalled and not distrobox?

edit: thank you guys! I guess for me this means that I’ll use distrobox because it’s much more mature or documentation is a little bit better and I do not need (or have) fedora’s support

  • @alt@lemmy.ml
    15•2 years ago

    Distrobox is directly inspired from Toolbx and was created because of limitations of Toolbx and how Toolbx’ maintainers didn’t want to implement some features at that moment in time.

    Currently, Distrobox is almost a superset of Toolbx. Though, I’ve come to the understanding that Toolbx does better at some tasks.

    If you would like to stick to just one of them, then Distrobox is probably still the better one and should be preferred. However, if its added functionality doesn’t do it for you, then please feel free to continue using Toolbx.

    Why is toolbox preinstalled and not distrobox?

    Because Toolbx predates Distrobox and is developed by developers that are associated with Fedora and even specifically designed in hopes of solving some issues pertaining to Fedora’s Atomic distros.

  • Vincent
    7•2 years ago

    I stuck with Toolbox for a long time because it was default, but then I wanted to be able to easily recreate my *boxes with the same set of packages when e.g. they broke for some reason, or because the distro they were built on released a new major version. Distrobox supports that with its assemble command, so I switched. Otherwise it’s not too different really, for a casual user like me, and if I hadn’t needed assemble, Toolbox would’ve been just fine.

    (Except that I keep forgetting whether Toolbox or Toolbx is the correct spelling now.)

  • @Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
    4•2 years ago

    I use Distrobox on Fedora Silverblue.
    More precisely, uBlue. It came pre-installed there and I quite like it.

    Toolbx is more of a “use it to install command line dnf-packages on SB”, while Distrobox is way more capable.

    I can have any distro I want as container and export graphical apps and binarys.

  • @Pantherina@feddit.de
    3•2 years ago

    Distrobox was always stable for me. Autocomplete only in bash but that doesnt matter much. Waaay more images by default but not as curated, also many are maintained by Fedora people and not the Distrobox people, so its not like they actually support more but just ship.

    This is a big difference, Toolbox also supports these images.

    But featurewise distrobox is brilliant, love the app icon export, the binaries are maybe a bit bloated.

  • @MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Why not both ? Toolbox is the fedora/redhat solution, which is the why, and makes it the choice when something’s in the fedora repositories, or if you want to trial it before (considering) rpm-ostree install, but an Arch distrobox gets you the AUR, not to be sneered at…