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  I switch back and forth between bazzite and bluefin quite often on these and other immutable distributions, /usr is read-only, and the recommended is to use installation methods that write to your HOME (or to /var which is where `docker` and `flatpak --system` save files) i really should muck about with container-based development flows my current preference is flatpak, then whatever per-language package tooling (e.g. cargo for tools written in Rust, npm with a custom HOME prefix for tools wr...

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  hehe, so … if you ever change the hostname of a Linux machine, you really really ought to double-check /etc/hosts to make the same hostname change there it’s surprising just how much will break if a machine’s own hostname isn’t resolvable to a 127.x.x.x address :P