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Did we kill Linux's killer feature?
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This is one of the reasons i don't use flatpaks, snaps etc. I get everything either from the official repos or from the aur. Except balena etcher as it is the only thing i was unable to install via my aur helper and i couldn't be bothered to look into why as balena is not that important to me.
It is the ONLY package that isn't updated with my update command as i installed it via appimage
I've only found one use case for balena: absolutely needing a gui to run a simple
ddcommand. The other potential case, automagically handling bootability, never worked for me.I will never use dd unless absolutely necessary. People call it disk destroyer for a reason