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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

What's the big selling point compared to ranger, nnn, yazi or broot?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't used any of the 3, but from a look over them superfile looks a lot more user friendly and has a nicer overall look.

Edit; the install process is rough though, complains about missing glibc but searching for that package in apt doesn't show anything promising. It also seems to require some kind of third party font that isn't included? I gave up lol that's too much for me to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Glibc is the gnu c library. You wouldn't just download that from apt. I'm surprised your Linux distro doesn't already have that installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's definitely a big learning curve with how complex installing things on linux is haha, I'm still used to windows just open the exe installer and that's it.