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whalesaladyesterday at 3:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

"I have a minor inconvenience -- I know, I'll create an entirely new distribution where 99.92% is identical to the base"


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amlibyesterday at 4:07 PM

How else are you going to improve the linux gene pool? Breeding linux distros ain't gonna cut it :)

ogogmadyesterday at 5:38 PM

Being able to roll back updates/upgrades that go wrong, is not just fixing a minor inconvenience. There's also something about the critical part of the system being less mutable. Desktop Linux has been way too easy to break in the past.

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