apt for basic, stable system packages
bare debs or flatpaks for proprietary stuff and desktop applications
nix for development environments and command line stuff
guix for containerization

normal system :3

@noiob Thanks! I really like it, reminds me of sneaking onto my dad's Win97 laptop to play flash games from a cereal box

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@noracodes did your dad run unreleased prototype sofware from microsoft? :P

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@noiob oh i guess that wasn't a thing. Win 98? I was like 6

@noracodes my first ever own computer was an old WinME box :3 I was older than 6 but also XP was already out at the time. I even could've installed it if I'd known (and upgraded the ram from 128 megs)

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