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Incus and programming
(lemmy.world)
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I love containers for this use case.
They allow you to just install and test pretty much anything you want and if it doesn't go well... just rebuild the container and start again. Rebuilding a container takes about 5 seconds to fix problems that would take 5 weeks of headaches if you made the same mistake on your main operating system.
If
apt-get install
wants to install a bunch of dependencies you're not sure about, oh well give it a try and see how it goes. That's definitely not an approach you can use successfully outside of a container.Another benefit of containers is you can have two computers (e.g. a desktop and a laptop) and easily share the exact same container between both of them.
Personally I use Docker, because there are rich tools available for it and also it's what everyone else I work with uses. I can't speak to wether or not Incus is better as I've never used it.