How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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It’s fantastic, for two reasons:

  • There’s so much great software available through it, and I can always get the latest version regardless of my distro - or an older version if it hasn’t kept up with its dependencies.
  • It’s part of the tooling that allows me to update my operating system without risk of it breaking (i.e. I can use an atomic distro because of it).
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