Distrobox, Toolbx, and the 'What Would You Give and What Would You Keep' Question

Tue, 19 May 2026 10:30:00 -0300

“What would you give and what would you keep?” — Mase, From Scratch (Double Up, 1999)

Mase asked it about rewinding your whole life and starting over. I ask it every time someone on my team picks a development container stack. Because the moment you decide to let a container be your workstation — not just hold a service, but hold your editor, your shell, your language toolchains, your AUR packages on top of a Fedora host — you’re making a series of small, ugly trade-offs. What would you give up from your bare-metal workflow, and what would you keep?

Toolbx on Danilo Falcão da Silva

Distrobox, Toolbx, and the 'What Would You Give and What Would You Keep' Question