I start: the most important thing is not the desktop, it’s the package manager.

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      Installed distrobox on NixOS because I was worried being limited to only nixpkgs and have not touched it once lol

      Same goes for the windows VM except for the time I needed to run excel macros for work

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        Worried about being limited to only the biggest selection of packages available. Does not compute.

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          Here’s a graph, it should be fine for your package needs: Graph

          This is not totally accurate because nixpkgs also packages some packages that wouldn’t be in the system package manager like Python and Haskell packages. Excluding those it’s pretty much the same as the AUR

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        I did on my Nix, there was a package in Nixpkgs that was outdated, so I had the opportunity to use distrobox for that, at leqst temporarily until they update the package.

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      Am I reading the readme correctly in that I can run apt-get within distrobox on Fedora, and not be limited to dnf packages?