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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?

Jokes aside, paru.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality. I prefer yay.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Because it's written in rust ofcourse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because paru has a working sudoloop and config, unlike yay.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It also sounds much happier, yay!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I honestly go back and forth. Depends on which one I decide to try next time I reinstall. I actually used aura for a while, but switched back to yay for the --sudo flag. (I use opendoas)

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Kinda meant it as a joke, but that's actually super cool

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

It's a great tool but note that by default it upgrades EVERYTHING, up to and including production cloud environments if you are connected to any.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That would be slower. This tries all of the tools in parallel.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

doesn't that do all of them together, possibly making you install it multiple times ?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The idea is that only one will succeed. Look, it is a comic not a production-ready solution.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Don't care, ship it now!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

Nix entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Microsoft: "winget!"

Nobody asked you, Microsoft. Go back to making compact nuclear reactors, because honestly that's based AF.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

wasn't a thing yet when the comic was made; technology advances so quickly...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

sudo pacman -Sy $1

There you go.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It doesn't even run detached. Literally unrunnable.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“The script accepts the name of a program or package as an argument when you run it. This value is then referenced as "$1" (argument number 1). Everywhere the script says "$1", it substitutes in the name of the package you gave it. The end result is the name being tried against a large number of software repositories and package managers, and hopefully, at least one of them will be appropriate and the program will be successfully installed.”

Source: explain XKCD

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think they asked for an explanation, but thanks anyways!

ExplainXKCD's a great site, more XKCD readers should know about it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nobody asked, but I needed it. Thought that perhaps I’m not alone, so now that I have the answer, might as well share it here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That sonds like a good thought process, I'll try it too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yep, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)
flatpak install "$1"
snap install "$1"
appimage-cli-tool install "$1"
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

cd "$1" && docker-compose up -d

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Where's sudo emerge -avq $1?? How dare you omit it?! Blasphemy!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

You're gonna need a -y on apt-get

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

The final fallback should be robodialing some tech support service and provide TeamViewer credentials

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

wait.. no alpine apk?! :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

nix-shell -p "$1"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not the most experienced by any means, but wouldn't it be better to run it with a ";" in the spot off all of the "&" so that way if one of the commands fail it doesn't stop mid script?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

gam (GitHub Application Manager)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is YaST* still a thing? Surprised Randall hasn't touched/included *SuSE. Then again, maybe the joke was already long enough.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Missing pkcon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

winget install choco install scoop install

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Unless you have a pretty exotic architecture, i.e neither x86 nor ARM, then arguably Docker "should" be "enough".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

xbps-install ?

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