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I actually thought about this, too, back when snap and flatpak gained momentum. I think it is an interesting idea, but very difficult to achieve, because of the plethora of different package managers....

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GNU/Linux

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05-12-2018, 09:22 AM

Thread: Scavenger Hunt (June 2018)
Post: RE: Scavenger Hunt (June 2018)

I'm stuck at the second question already :/ I understand what to do in the first place, but have no idea what to do with the output...

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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21-06-2018, 01:03 PM

Thread: Week in the TTY (June 2018)
Post: RE: Week in the TTY (2018)

I'm going to try it this year. I wanted to do it last year already, but I had finals at that time, so I couldn't. Is framebuffer allowed?

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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03-06-2018, 09:12 AM

Thread: Hello nixers!
Post: RE: Hello nixers!

Welcome to the forums! (22-05-2018, 04:47 AM)ajz Wrote: This pushed me to discover the system, as I didn't understand / knew how to do anything This is exactly how I push myself to learn something....

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22-05-2018, 06:00 AM

Thread: Useful Android Apps To Own
Post: RE: Useful Android Apps To Own

Nice, it is always interesting to hear about new apps from the f-droid store. It's pretty challenging to find the good stuff in there between the rest. Let's see what I could add: - AdAway: easy syst...

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Android & Iphone

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14-04-2018, 07:30 PM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Ha that's funny, because in my case it's the other way around: I use networkmanager, but I hate pulseaudio, so I guess where on uses higher level tools, it usually really is easier to get to run. Disa...

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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30-11-2017, 08:21 PM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

(29-11-2017, 09:43 PM)renken Wrote: I'm the thing that always fails to work from the first shot when installing Arch linux. No matter what you do, No matter what wiki/blog you follow instructions on...

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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30-11-2017, 04:13 AM

Thread: we are connected
Post: RE: we are connected

Welcome to nixers! Happy to see a few new members in the last couple of weeks! I had to chuckle a little bit, when I read: (15-11-2017, 05:51 PM)budRich Wrote: I don't want to get political, since...

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16-11-2017, 10:36 AM

Thread: DIY Laptop
Post: RE: DIY Laptop

(15-11-2017, 09:25 PM)zge Wrote: I thought that they only had installed MINIX on Ring -3 in the last few years (somewhere early 2010's?). And besides that, aren't there considerably more Android/mob...

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Hardware talk

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16-11-2017, 10:28 AM

Thread: DIY Laptop
Post: RE: DIY Laptop

Every modern PC and Laptop is based on a SoC, since the CPU contains at least the chipset, if not the GPU and even RAM, too. The performance isn't the problem of SoCs, but of ARM vs x86. At the moment...

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Hardware talk

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15-11-2017, 09:05 PM

Thread: Emulating/Looking-like a WM Webpage
Post: RE: Emulating/Looking-like a WM Webpage

I think the design we have right now is pretty close to the typical design of minimal window managers. I really like it this way.

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The WWW

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25-10-2017, 10:17 AM

Thread: What would the world be without Unix
Post: RE: What would the world be without Unix

C programming would not necessarily disappear. It is very likely, but it is possible that C could exist anyways. The question about GNU is interesting. Maybe it would also have been DOS based? Besi...

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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23-10-2017, 07:34 AM

Thread: messaging app
Post: RE: messaging app

I am using WhatsApp for the most part, Signal for the sensitive stuff and Telegram for people, who think it is more secure than WhatsApp. I really dislike Telegram. However, Signal has a beta version ...

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Android & Iphone

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27-02-2017, 01:13 PM

Thread: GoboLinux and Package Management
Post: RE: GoboLinux and Package Management

(24-01-2017, 11:02 PM)hades Wrote: Does it have a package manager?According to the review, it does, but it doesn't have a lot of packages and no ports system, so have you have to compile packages fo...

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GNU/Linux

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25-01-2017, 07:43 AM

Thread: GoboLinux and Package Management
Post: GoboLinux and Package Management

I just read the review (https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20170123#gobo) of GoboLinux on DistroWatch and I stumbled upon something interesting. Gobo rearranges the classic unix file structure t...

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GNU/Linux

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24-01-2017, 09:21 PM

Thread: hello
Post: RE: hello

Thanks for your kind words xero and mrtn. Regarding Windows: While it is true, that most of the games, that I like the most, are availible for Linux now (and I am being these exclusively now), the iss...

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14-01-2017, 10:26 PM

Thread: hello
Post: RE: hello

(10-01-2017, 12:48 PM)josuah Wrote: Glad to find an Alpine user. I may try to use it again this year.Do it! I really really like it. Wouldn't be my daily driver (yet), but I am quite impressed of h...

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10-01-2017, 09:27 PM

Thread: What distribution would you fork?
Post: RE: What distribution would you fork?

I would fork Void Linux and change the package manager to pacman or apk (from Alpine Linux). When I first read about Void Linux, I was so excited, but I found the package-manager so counter-intuitive,...

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GNU/Linux

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09-01-2017, 03:39 PM

Thread: hello
Post: RE: hello

Thanks for the warm welcome :) @albertocg: My native tongue is German. And I already read a lot of the threads here and found this one, too, but thanks :) @hades: i3-gaps has almost exactly my level...

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09-01-2017, 03:32 PM

Thread: hello
Post: hello

Hey everyone, it's time to introduce myself, after seeing a few threads, where I wanted to write something, but didn't because I wanted to tell you who I am first. I am asyncial, and I really like to...

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09-01-2017, 12:57 PM