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Me gusta. Right now I would take anything with a GUI that's not Gnome since it doesn't work at all.
KDE?
What about it
it is one of many non-GNOME GUIs
Not looking for another DE, just a package manager. But thank you.
So why did you mention Gnome? It's also not a package manager
~~Is it a real package manager or a reskin of aptitude?~~
It's a DE
~~Neither cosmic store nor gnome store is a DE. That's the question I was asking. If the mentioned store was a package manager or a high level GUI for an existing package manager.~~
~~I'm honecsltly curious since as far as I knew, gnome should interact with existing package managers, be it aptitude, pacman or yum~~
He didn't say "Gnome software", he said "Gnome" which is a DE.
You are completely right, I guess my mind blanked. Sorry, my app doesn't show enough context chain comments for responses and I had to look up the comment separately to make sense of the chain.
Because Gnome Software is.
Gnome Software is just a front end for PackageKit
Great?
What are you asking?
I didn't ask anything.
Great?
No, definitely not
Okay?
Cool?
And?
So?
Alright?
how about the old
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade || apt-get install shit
? or maybe you're more intodnf install shit || dnf update --refresh
?Well that works but the idea of a package manager is that I don't have to do that.
Also I have to do that for each independent repository.
Well, if to you "GNOME" means "GNOME Software", then surely "KDE" can mean "KDE Discover".
It doesn't. It's called context.
You should edit that to say Gnome Software (aka Gnome App Store) instead of just Gnome. People are going to think you're talking about the whole DE.
Context