Chimera Linux in virt-manager with Plasma | Wayland | APK | Clang/LLVM | musl | dinit | BSD core tools

Yes, I have KDE with Chimera.
I dont like Gnome either… screens full of icons do not appeal , I like drop down menus and a clean screen.
If Chimera had Xfce I woukd have chosen that, but KDE works for me.

I think Chimera’s repository depends heavily on Alpine, so it may be not as comprehensive as Debian. How do you find the apk package system?

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I like everything about chimera but there are still few packages but I like the manager.
we need something like aptitude
It seems less complex than gentoo, so far so good

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Yes, nothing like Gentoo… it is more like Void, except not rolling release.

I think that will come. Remember it is only a beta release.

The Alpine page on apk is helpful

also this from Nix

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/10-alpine-linux-apk-command-examples/

Regards
Neville

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how can I install on chimera virtualbox?
I tried with the classic installation for linux

after finishing the installation, the program starts and closes again

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I am not sure. My VM installation reported at the beginning of this topic was in virt-manager. Virtualbox uses the same tools as virt-manager (ie KVM/qemu) so it should be possible.
I had a bit of trouble with USB mouse and USB keyboard hardware, but that was only while installing. My Chimera runs in virt-managerwithout issues.

Where exactly does chimera get to when you boot it in Vbox? Do you get a command line login prompt? Do you succeed in logging in? Is there any message on your screen?
I assume you do know that in Vbox, after completing an install, you have to switch it from ‘boot from CD’ to ‘boot from virtual disk’

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