Since you are using Linux, you could consider using containers. That way the entire environment is preserved and independent of other containers. So if a new release comes along you can create a new container, and try it out. If the new env breaks things and you are on some kind of deadline you can just switch back and continue with the older working container.
The premise is there is lots of disk space, memory space, and processing power in today's processors. So lots of duplicate environments are ok during development. I am not sure I would try it on a rpi5, but it works great on my laptop.
As so often happens Docker went from opensource to some kind of consortium to sort of closed source. Also it wants to run as root, which I am always afraid of using. So anyway I personally use podman which is a non-root open source container system that is very configuration compatible with docker.
The premise is there is lots of disk space, memory space, and processing power in today's processors. So lots of duplicate environments are ok during development. I am not sure I would try it on a rpi5, but it works great on my laptop.
As so often happens Docker went from opensource to some kind of consortium to sort of closed source. Also it wants to run as root, which I am always afraid of using. So anyway I personally use podman which is a non-root open source container system that is very configuration compatible with docker.
Statistics: Posted by nospamcalfee — Sat Oct 25, 2025 11:15 pm