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I thought that apt-get was a wrapper around the apt command

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It’s not?

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Ah, the innocence of youth.

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Wait… Someone explain things to me!

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Today I learned that apt is like apt-get but newer

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When I started on Debian, there was only apt-get. (And dpkg if you manually pulled .debs from somewhere).

Then a little while later, there was aptitude, which was nice.

apt the command didn’t show up until 2014.

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They just can’t make it easy

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Dpkg is the low level tool for Debian packages.

Apt-get is the original frontend for dpkg. It is a full featured tool that lets the user give commands to dpkg, along with apt-cache, which displays information to the user.

Apt is a high level tool for user friendliness. It combines some features from apt-get and apt-cache, as well as adds progress bars and other quality of life features. It also strips down some features the average user doesn’t use.

So neither is a wrapper for the other. They are two similar tools that do the same job. Apt-get is better for scripting due to being a more rigid tool while apt is nicer for end users.

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5 points

Amazing! 16 years with Ubuntu, and now I know!

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1 point

Well, TIL.

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2 points

That democracy was real.

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There was a place by the beach called Helenback.

My siblings and I in the car: Where are we going?

Mum (shouting): Hell and back!

I was an adult before I realised it had another name.

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When I was very young, my dad told me we were going to Miami. I thought he said “my Ami”, which I assumed was a word for some kind of relative, like Auntie, Granny, etc.

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Volcanos being caused by overpopulation in hell.

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I thought elevator shafts were the gateway to hell

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That there’s a loving God.

Now it seems clear that even if he did exist, he’s just above average asshole

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I would argue that they would be fully evil depending on your definition of god.

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In my case, the abrahamic one. Narcissistic asshole

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Ya that one is evil.

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See also, Just World Fallacy

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I was a real piece of shit for a good handful of years when I was a kid because I believed I was destined for hell. I figured if I’m going to spend eternity being tortured I may as well enjoy life to the max, even at the expense of others. Because I’m already going to hell, so why not, right?

Religion is fucking toxic, man. I hurt a lot of people and made a lot of decisions I can’t recover from.

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