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This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it was somewhat controversial, but the mint people solved for this by including their own curated software manager (re:store) where you can search for (and install/uninstall) packages known to already work well with the distro.

most of my support calls are 'wheres that thing i can install apps with?'

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That came from Debian long before Mint even existed. The lineage goes Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint, and the package manager was part of Debian since the 1990s (although you had to use it through the command-line back then.)

yeah but where did debian get it, cuz we all know it was hitler.