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

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[–] bo5on@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What package manager do you currently use?

[–] BigTrout75@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Depends. Ha ha

RPMs at work, Debs for my RaspberryPi devices. PacMan (Arch) and Flatpaks for home.