toolbox vs distrobox. Which one to use? - eviltoast

toolbox is preinstalled on fedora silverblue/kinoite whereas distrobox isn’t. What’s the advantage of one vs the other? Why is toolbox preinstalled and not distrobox?

edit: thank you guys! I guess for me this means that I’ll use distrobox because it’s much more mature or documentation is a little bit better and I do not need (or have) fedora’s support

  • Vincent@kbin.social
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    I stuck with Toolbox for a long time because it was default, but then I wanted to be able to easily recreate my *boxes with the same set of packages when e.g. they broke for some reason, or because the distro they were built on released a new major version. Distrobox supports that with its assemble command, so I switched. Otherwise it’s not too different really, for a casual user like me, and if I hadn’t needed assemble, Toolbox would’ve been just fine.

    (Except that I keep forgetting whether Toolbox or Toolbx is the correct spelling now.)