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An interesting trend graph of the most diffused distros and their adoption by users over time.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they don't advertise it, but if you are on the forum, the devs let you know, especially if you need help with any GUI..."We don't support...." Not saying the devs are bad, lovely people, but that is just their thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Cool, I appreciate the heads up and I think I'm ready for that. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

It's not like you can't install Endeavour and then install Majaro's pamac anyway. Hell, I use Arch but still have pamac installed. Sometimes I just want a gui package manager.