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submitted 4 days ago by ruffsl@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 70 points 4 days ago (36 children)

Because it's nice for devs to have a single package type to build per OS

[–] gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Why can’t they do that already? Just choose whichever one you want it’s trivial for me to run whichever as a user

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 33 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Just not snaps.

AppImage and flatpak are fine though

[–] gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Correct

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