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the point with "just working" applies to what the system ships, obviously third party whatever is outside of our control

the system aims to have high quality packaging that results in a system that is consistently deterministic and auditable, while indeed making things just work (no extra effort beyond just installation required to get any software the system ships to work - on any CPU architecture it supports) - you can bootstrap a fully working system pretty much just by installing a single metapackage + a kernel in a root (and then refreshing the bootloader)