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According to John Hammond Facebook is blocking posts about Linux right now. So here goes. I love it how Arch Linux does it's updates even if compiling software fresh takes longer to install, Unlike Ubuntu's snap and to some extent Flatpak \/ Appmages, the resulting native binaries are fully dynamically loading, use the latest features, smaller files launch faster as they are not fat binary etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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