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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by gurkendoktor on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:54PM (#16740583)
> who wants to run debian stable or centos as his main OS?

I haven't used these two in particular, but if they support flatpak, why not? You'd have the same packages as on the server plus the latest versions of GUI apps.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by stiGGG on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:11PM (#16741343)
Interesting point, is flatpak already a mature thing?
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by gurkendoktor on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:13AM (#16742746)
I've used flatpak on an Ubuntu 16.04 base without issues. There are limitations, for example you can't easily replace/update your window manager through flatpak or snap. But for user-facing apps, it's really a great step forward.
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