The immutable state of distros like fedora silerblue and opensuse microos leads to the use of distrobox.
I defaulted to a fedora image but there must be better images for the job. What do you suggest to use if you just want to install pdflatex, pandoc, R, julia, python, ffmpeg, etc. Just the usual tools you need for the tasks everyday
Any that suits you better… I use default fedora image for simplier
toolbox enterfor most things, but I also have Debian and Arch images, I occasionally use. I layered ffmpeg, so other software could use it too.