On immutable systems like bazzite, what’s the best way to mount webdav storage as a file system in order to open it with Cryptomator?

options i’m thinking are:

  1. use distrobox bc there i can install davfs and cryptomator
  2. look for flatpak softwares that enables this function

I’m basically clueless. Any kind of info would be much appreciated.

  • unyons@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I am not familiar with webdav, and I’m no bazzite expert (although it’s my daily driver), but I would guess that distrobox could be a way to do this.

    Either install a distrobox of arch or mint or Debian or whatever, and do the install there, or check out what distrobox has to offer for mounting WebDAV storage. I found it has options for implementing local AI that I would never have dreamed of, so who knows what else it can do?

    https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/Distrobox/

    • tizOP
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      2 days ago

      Yup, seems like distrobox is the way to go in any case.

  • unskilled5117@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If you don’t get a solution here I would recommend asking on bazzites discord or forum. There are more helpful people with more insights into immutable there. If it can‘t be solved without layering they might even be open to having it included in the image by default.

    • tizOP
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      2 days ago

      That’s awesome I didn’t think of that. Yup, I will look into suggestions from other people then get help/request on their forum

    • tizOP
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      2 days ago

      thanks for the suggestion. how can I install rclone on Bazzite? A quick searching didn’t bring anything clear. Are you referring to using rclone via Distrobox or something?

      • utopiah
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        2 days ago

        I’m not familiar with Bazzite but I do have a SteamDeck with SteamOS and I do have things installed on it. There is for it 2 ways :

        • keep binaries in home, e.g. ~/bin/rclone because that does not get deleted on updates
        • allowing SteamOS to not be read-only and add a package. Here it seems to be via ujust but I don’t see rclone in there so I’d go down their list https://docs.bazzite.gg/Installing_and_Managing_Software/ and it seems brew install rclone would work.
  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    You can install software on immutable distros, it just becomes part of the ostree image