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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions? (lemdro.id)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

neofetch

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of my two only used commands. The other being yay.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Dude that is risky as hell, you use yay to install all of your things? With yay they have full permissions on your machine. Use pacman instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What does that mean? When I've used yay, it only asks for sudo privileges when installing the package (and so does pacman)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I always use yay so I can easily find and use the history, the only time I use pacman without yay is to check the man page