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Re:Richard Stallman on why GNU su didn't support the “wheel”... by markstos on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:38PM (#37179278)
Qubes is enough of a pain to use that another OS project started to try to take the concept and make it more usable:

https://spectrum-os.org/

Doing so has proved hard and slow so far, and Spectrum hasn't had a usable release for the masses yet.

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Re:Richard Stallman on why GNU su didn't support the “wheel”... by dooglius on Friday August 18, 2023 @05:51PM (#37182638)
> Initial versions of Spectrum will have the user be responsible for writing Nix code for each application and resource, and the combinations they make between them.

As a qubes user, I think this is interesting but it definitely does not sound more usable.

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