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Why is Linux still trash in 2025?

9/30/2025Updated 9/30/2025

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But damn some aspects are really annoying. One other issue is one package installation at a time with a lock which you can't do from other terminal. Here's what GPT says: > The APT package manager uses a lock file (usually /var/lib/dpkg/lock or /var/lib/apt/lists/lock) to ensure that only one process (like apt-get, apt, or the GUI Software Center) is modifying packages at a time. To me this seems like a serious limitation

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