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Scott Williams 🐧 · 5w
99% of the time I love immutable #Linux until I need to run something like nmap as root and nmap isn't on my runtime image and yes there are ways but now I gotta detour my train of thought when I'm al...
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@nprofile1q... Agreed. I got around this 95% of the time by using #homebrew (I'd previously never tried it on Linux, but it ships with #bluefin). I was fearful of the impact of a second package system, but it worked well and stayed out of the way of system conflicts by installing binaries under /home.

The other 5% was crazier things like Elastic Security that involved dumb things like monkeypatching binaries to work :(

I haven't used it for a spell, but I really liked Bluefin.
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Scott Williams 🐧 · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqdal42zpkvyawz90f8fjwwkrdpg4vy6c53ehx4kctc2vngeeqamjs0qnsfn Yeah, it's absolutely workable, but it's also not trivial. This is more of a gripe than a complaint, but I just wanted to say the words in a place where some others might understand wha...