• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Well yeah but my point was really just that it’s a goofy name. Not instead of, more like as opposed to.

    P.S. interesting factoid that I didn’t know. Thanks. But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper? Because that’s sufficient.

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      3 days ago

      But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper?

      No, apt-get is the oldest. It was one utility out of a set of utilities. I always found it super dumb that you hat to use a completely different tool to search for a package (apt-cache, I think).

      zypper was released in 2006.

      The all in one apt command was introduced by Debian 8 in 2015.

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            2 days ago

            That’s not really a sensible way to deal with instructions if they’re the only ones available for a specific tool. Old does not mean anything.

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              2 days ago

              @AndrewZabar using EndeavourOS, for example, searching how to install the Nvidia drivers, you can find old results such as installing nvidia-dkms… yay -S nvidia-dkms, that could have been useful 3 years ago but now it breaks the display, you should instead yay -S nvidia-inst && nvidia-inst & everything will work perfectly

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                23 hours ago

                Okay but nvidia drivers? Could you choose a more volatile topic? Those things have never not been a problem lol.

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                    14 hours ago

                    Glad to hear that, but I still see one post after another where people have problems, so I think reality maybe doesn’t comply quite as you’d like to think.