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by Johanx64 1321 days ago
How is apt not crypic? It's the bona fide definition of it, every part of it.

1. It spits out mountains of cryptic gibberish when you use it.

2. It literally contains "Advanced" in it's textbook nondescript three letter abbreviation.

3. Without a fairly intimate understanding of it's hairy inner workings on how exactly dependency and package conflicts are resolved, it will fuck things up and fuck things up quite royaly. Matter of time really.

Case in point:

Linus from LTT removing DE when installing Steam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3HAS257Kk)

4. In fact, I'd go a step further and say that it WILL fuck things up even if you do understand that whole house of cards, but you will atleast know how to duct tape your way out of it.

Again reminder: How exactly does this enchance "our thinking" in any shape or form exactly?