I am currently using Linux Mint (after a long stint of using MX Linux) after learning it handles Nvidia graphics cards flawlessly, which I am grateful for. Whatever grief I have given Ubuntu in the past, I take it back because when they make something work, it is solid.
Anyways, like most distros these days, Flatpaks show up alongside native packages in the package manager / app store. I used to have a bias towards getting the natively packed version, but these days, I am choosing Flatpaks, precisely because I know they will be the latest version.
This includes Blender, Cura, Prusaslicer, and just now QBittorrent. I know this is probably dumb, but I choose the version based on which has the nicer icon.
I wonder how well it integrates with hardware. Arch with the pacman packages has been the only distro where I could get ROCm working reliably. I’d love to make a “ROCm container” and dump all that mess into it’s own sandbox.
In fact, the thing I really want is more of a “Qubes but not for security tryhards” (aka I can actually use Wayland AND game on it) where everything gets it’s own container mainly for organizational purposes, but something like this sounds like a fair compromise.
Could you do this with something like Distrobox?
Again - I have no idea how well it’s hardware support is. I assume 3d accel and whatnot would be fine because it’s widely used, but dunno if anyone tried running ROCm on it.
The source is reddit, but I didn’t want to send more traffic there: https://www.reddit.com/r/steamdeck_linux/comments/xltere/rocm_finally_installed_via_distrobox/