I tried it but it was too much for me. It’s not my thing, but it’s a very interesting and very cool project and I have nothing but respect towards the Bedrock Linux team for what they have achieved.
It’s interesting, but it always seemed a bit too hacky for my liking and possibly prone to breakage. Eg seeing the compatibility table here doesn’t inspire much confidence: bedrocklinux.org/0.7/feature-compatibility.html
I also don’t like that it hijacks your host distro, it would’ve be been better if it was a bit more self-contained, like how Nix works on other distros. Feels like the mashup Bedrock does would be a PITA for troubleshooting (for instance, mixing binaries from different distros via $PATH is just asking for trouble). I also dislike that it uses FUSE to share resources between strata, given how inefficient FUSE is.
I think for most purposes, if you really want to mix-and-match distro features, a far cleaner approach would be to just use Distrobox.
I used it for a bit, it was surprisingly stable and easy to use. However, I eventually gave up on it because it was much harder to find the source of issues in the system.
With tools like Distrobox now available, I’m not sure how useful this is anymore.
Thanks. Nice. Been meaning to try Bedrock Linux before but figured it could be time consuming. Good that you mention Distrobox. Have played with Distrobox a few times, I like it although with one user the usage of the same files in $HOME was a bit confusing at first.
Yes, it’s fantastic if you need that kind of thing. I used Bedrock for years to have OpenSUSE’s patched kde-firefox running on Kubuntu. I never had any issues whatsoever. Very cool project.
Its working fine on waydroid for me at the moment, so it’s probably not necessary to try set up that. I mostly play Java anyway. Do you know how to install the google play store on Waydroid?
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