I'm going to be honest, as long as the terminal does its job reasonably well and with good readability then I'm pretty much satisfied. It's one of those tools that I want to just work well the first time. I've become a man of simple tastes in my (not so) old age.
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Usually whatever fits in best with the DE I'm using. I'm on Pop!, so that's Gnome Terminal currently. I'm excited to see when System76's Pop!_OS's COSMIC Desktop will bring with an alacritty-based terminal emulator.
Love me some fish! Though for more complex data processing, I'm working on learning nushell. Being able to work with more complex data structures is amazing.
Right. I mean something like an embedded terminal in an IDE that has full shell access to the host environment.
I think their uses extend beyond obsolete software. In particular, trying to get updates out to a wide variety of Linux distros has generally meant a tradeoff between "move fast, break things" and "move slow, never change". Flatpak gives you a stable set of libraries to work with and the ability to run multiple versions of those libraries at once. Linux package managers have a place, but their sheer proliferation means that for most applications to reach all desktop Linux users, they have to go through something like Flatpak for distribution.
Interesting, thank you. I'm definitely running into trouble for things like shells, but it works okay.
Other way around, accessing command line tools. As far as I know, there is no sandbox setting to allow access to execute commands directly on the host system.
I think pyenv would be the appropriate tool for doing a native install. And of course when it comes to CLI, Flatpak isn't really for that.
The sandbox can be very cumbersome when there is not a way to break out. I'm thinking specifically of command line tools for developers. You can poke holes in the sandbox to access the filesystem, but the moment you want to run an executable it won't let you.
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Cheese with your whines?
Yes, but some of us aren't the everyday user.