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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@squid_slime let me install this flatpak of kde wayland on my oracle unbreakable kernel running under redhat enterprise

[–] AbidanYre 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's like two keystrokes in emacs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@AbidanYre i only use Oracle Emacs which is just Emacs with a picture of Larry Ellison in the background flying a MiG