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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequen... by andai on Sunday February 27, 2022 @05:32PM (#30493420)
Any distros following this philosophy? Apart from solving the constantly breaking packages problem it sounds like it would also have the fastest installs (at the cost of increased disk usage, though perhaps fs-level (block-level) deduplication could offset this?
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Re:Win32 is the stable Linux userland ABI (and the consequen... by ari__ on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:53PM (#30496222)
NixOS is what you're looking for! The Nix package manager can also (theoretically) be used on any distribution to solve this exact problem.
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