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Developed in English and translated into Czech language. Translations welcomed!
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Looking to try out a new operating system?
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try
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# **DistroHopper**
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Quickly download, create and run VM of any#TODO operating system.
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[](https://liberapay.com/zenobit/donate)
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Licensed under AGPL3
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# Still Beta version!
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quickly create and run VMs
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As a base excellent [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu)
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you can download new distro with few clicks of a mouse
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# Features
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- GUI using yad (old video)
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See it in action on youtube...
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[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrFQECcwLRA)
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or command line?...
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- TUI using fzf (old video)
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[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ5hqYEskOw)
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- Desktop(shortcuts) file generator
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It will simple generate .desktop files for every supported and downloaded VM in quickemu.
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So you can copy it anywhere...
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- Set dir where VMs will be stored
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- Install DistroHopper systemwide
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- Portable mode (dependecies still must be installed)
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- Add new operating system to quickget (bit easier)
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- Copy all downloaded ISOs to destination directory
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- Translate DistroHopper (Currently supported English and Czech language)
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---
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# Why am I doing it?
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Because I wanna learn
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- Linux
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- Bash
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- yad
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- project management
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And contribute to open source
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play with Quickemu
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And easily add new distros to it
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---
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## How to run DistroHopper?
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You need fullfill the requirement first...
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Quickemu.
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[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTYWEgw0hI)
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## Requirements (For running VMs)
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- [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/) (*6.0.0 or newer*) **with GTK, SDL,
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SPICE & VirtFS support**
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- [bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/) (*4.0 or newer*)
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- [Coreutils](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/)
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- [EDK II](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2)
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- [grep](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/)
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- [jq](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)
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- [LSB](https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/lsb/start)
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- [procps](https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps)
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- [python3](https://www.python.org/)
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- [macrecovery](https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/tree/master/Utilities/macrecovery)
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- [mkisofs](http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/cdrecord.html)
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- [usbutils](https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils)
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- [util-linux](https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux)
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- [sed](https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/)
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- [socat](http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/)
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- [spicy](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk)
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- [swtpm](https://github.com/stefanberger/swtpm)
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- [Wget](https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)
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- [xdg-user-dirs](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/)
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- [xrandr](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xrandr)
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- [zsync](http://zsync.moria.org.uk/)
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- [unzip](http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html)
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### Installing Requirements
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For Ubuntu, Arch and nixos systems the
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[ppa](https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/ubuntu/quickemu),
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[AUR](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/quickemu) or
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[nix](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/quickemu)
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packaging will take care of the dependencies. For other host
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distributions or operating systems it will be necessary to install the
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above requirements or their equivalents.
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If you install DistroHopper, it should take care of dependencies on Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, openSuse and Fedora
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### For DistroHopper to work you need
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`wget yad fzf` quickemu is included
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# How to install DistroHopper?
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You need get copy of distrohopper
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If you want more stable experience, download latest release from
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#### [GitHub](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper/releases)
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or
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From SourceForge [](https://sourceforge.net/projects/distrohopper/files/latest/download)
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If you want latest developer version... (could have bugs and break anytime)
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`git clone https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper`
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Enter created/unpacked distrohopper directory
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Now you should be good to go...
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# How to run DistroHopper
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Just run from terminal
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`dh`
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And you will see what next...
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## Desktop files
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All desktop files will be storred in your .config
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in directories /distrohopper/ready and supported
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Fell free to copy them anywhere you want...
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### Currently supported Operating Systems and tools:
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`agarimos
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alma
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alpine
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android
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archlinux
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archcraft
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arcolinux
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batocera
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blendos
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cachyos
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centos-stream
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cereus
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debian
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deepin
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devuan
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dietpi
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dragonflybsd
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elementary
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endeavouros
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endless
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fedora
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freebsd
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freedos
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fvoid
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gabeeos
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garuda
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gentoo
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ghostbsd
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haiku
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kali
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kdeneon
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kolibrios
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kubuntu
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linuxmint
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lmde
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mageia
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manjaro
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miyo
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mxlinux
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netboot
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netbsd
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nixos
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lubuntu
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macos
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openbsd
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opensuse
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oraclelinux
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popos
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reactos
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rebornos
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rockylinux
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siduction
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slackware
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slitaz
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solus
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steamos
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tails
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truenas-core
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truenas-scale
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ubuntu
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ubuntu-budgie
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ubuntukylin
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ubuntu-mate
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ubuntustudio
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ubuntu-unity
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ventoy
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void
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voidpup
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vxlinux
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windows
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xerolinux
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xubuntu
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zorin`
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Also with posible planned: [in duscusion](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper/discussions/9)
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# Github discussion:
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#### [discuss](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper/discussions)
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# Project chat group:
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If anyone wanna join, here is one
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[](https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=1-2&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FzmtsZwfTjwyynibt0bF6bb_xLWS9ce5A%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAkMtz66wGfWb6VDn-_t_mVm3RFiFfOC3Hxye8Hm5tmVo%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%22o8KR0TOM0f2j33nO9goMRQ%3D%3D%22%7D) way (click SimpleX logo)
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(check the software! even if you don't want chat about DistroHopper)
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[Simplex website](https://simplex.chat)
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# Without these amazing projects it wouldn't be posible:
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#### [bash](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/)
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#### [QEMU](https://www.qemu.org/)
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#### [quickemu](https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu)
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GUI depends on
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#### [yad](https://github.com/v1cont/yad)
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TUI depends on
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#### [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)
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----
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For
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- easy of use
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#### [fish](https://fishshell.com)
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- commiting and working with github
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#### [lazygit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit)
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- Editing
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#### [geany](https://geany.org/)
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#### [Kate](https://apps.kde.org/kate)
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- diff
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#### [Meld](https://meld.app/)
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- Logo and icons
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#### [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org)
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and
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#### [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org)
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#### [logo by](https://freesvg.org/by/OpenClipart) bit repaired by me..
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Everything done on
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#### [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org)
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# Mirrored on
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#### [GitHub](https://github.com/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper)
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#### [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/distrohopper)
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#### [Disroot](https://git.disroot.org/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper)
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#### [Codeberg](https://codeberg.org/oSoWoSo/DistroHopper)
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#### [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/osowoso/distrohopper)
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#### [SourceHut](https://git.sr.ht/~osowoso/DistroHopper)
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# DistroHopper website (click mascot):
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[](https://dh.osowoso.xyz/)
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# donate
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[](https://liberapay.com/zenobit/donate)
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@zen0bit at github
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mailto: <zenobit@osowoso.xyz>
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#### parent site [oSoWoSo](https://osowoso.xyz)
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