Slightly interested if this makes it easier to install ROS on not-Ubuntu, or on "unsupported" Ubuntu versions, but I don't really want to be the one owning the infra behind running the source builds for ROS2, from my experience so far they're kind of slow. Side by side ROS1/2 for migration is kind of interesting, too.
Jep! Pixi works on any linux distribution. The ros packages only require glibc to be available, the rest is installed by pixi. This means you can run any ros distro on any version of ubuntu (or any other glibc based linux for that matter). Including ros1 noetic!
But does it support ros1 bridge?