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I have been using Aurora DX for the last month, and it has been a good experience but has also required a shift in my thinking.

If anything is not included in the base image, you have a few options:

    1. use distrobox to install it in a container, and export the app to the desktop.
    2. use rpm-ostree to install it as a layer.  This is on the slow side, and will slow down weekly updates.
    3. Make your own base image with what you want included.  This is probably cumbersome and requires some infrastructure.

I have a few things in distrobox containers, things which aren't available as flatpaks. The biggest hurdle, for me, was getting wireshark running since the flatpak version can't capture traffic. I had to make a root distrobox container and export the app to my desktop. It works, but there were definitely some hoops to jump through.

I like that updates come through once a week and they aren't applied until I reboot. If I have problems, it is easy to roll back to what I was running before.

I would be comfortable giving my parents an Aurora setup, knowing that they can't easily break it.

[bogwog]

I use Bazzite, which ships with the homebrew package manager. Idk if wireshark is available on homebrew, but if it is then you'll be able to use it that way without having to deal with any issues related to containers. Nix is probably another option (you can use Nix as a package manager instead of a distro)

You could also build it from source, although that's definitely more work.