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I have already tried out Linux Mint. But I want to try out other distros.

PC specs:

Intel Core i5-10400
16 GB of RAM DDR4
1 TB NVME SSD
256 GB SATA SSD
Intel UHD 630

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Ah ha!

It uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as native Guile module

Lol I am actually glad there aren't two completely separate implementations... Now to install the hurd kernel...

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