Coming from 2 years of Silverblue and now trying Workstation for the last month, get super comfortable with making tools with distrobox before going to Silverblue. Once you try SB, don’t waste any time with the native toolbox system. Layer on distrobox and just use it from the get go. You can’t upgrade distros that are used to make toolbox containers, so don’t waste time building anything you want to keep or maintain using toolbox. Distrobox is orders of magnitude more capable and even more orders of magnitude better for documentation and features. Using toolbox will leave you frustrated and looking for ways to use podman commands, and that leads to infuriating documentation that is only written for advanced Docker users making the transition to Podman. I ended up layering a lot of stuff on my base build. Like toolbox does not have access to /dev by default so messing with Arduino/embedded stuff is a pain, and there is no documentation or flag options available in SB for how to deal with this issue. Overall SB worked okay for me, but I probably learned less and progressed slower than I would have if I was not using SB and had just used Workstation. That said, I am probably going to wipe my current setup and start over soon. My Workstation build is already an untenable mess.
Fedora workstation for now. Might give silverblue a go as I’ve found myself using more flatpaks recently, or vanilla OS when the rebase to Debian.
Coming from 2 years of Silverblue and now trying Workstation for the last month, get super comfortable with making tools with distrobox before going to Silverblue. Once you try SB, don’t waste any time with the native toolbox system. Layer on distrobox and just use it from the get go. You can’t upgrade distros that are used to make toolbox containers, so don’t waste time building anything you want to keep or maintain using toolbox. Distrobox is orders of magnitude more capable and even more orders of magnitude better for documentation and features. Using toolbox will leave you frustrated and looking for ways to use podman commands, and that leads to infuriating documentation that is only written for advanced Docker users making the transition to Podman. I ended up layering a lot of stuff on my base build. Like toolbox does not have access to /dev by default so messing with Arduino/embedded stuff is a pain, and there is no documentation or flag options available in SB for how to deal with this issue. Overall SB worked okay for me, but I probably learned less and progressed slower than I would have if I was not using SB and had just used Workstation. That said, I am probably going to wipe my current setup and start over soon. My Workstation build is already an untenable mess.