Are they so different that it’s justified to have so many different distributions? So far I guess that different package manager are the reason that divides the linux community. One may be on KDE and one on GNOME but they can use each other’s packages but usually you are bound to one manager

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Not much really. It is great, but slow as shit and makes me want to toss my computer across the room. I just want to install one tiny 5 kb package, I don’t want you to take 10 minutes checking all the RPM fusions repos and go to the moon and back then install my package. No, just install the damn thing. I’ll ask you when I need you to check that long list of repos. 😂

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Thanks for the response. I anticipated “it’s slow” but I guess that just doesn’t bother me because otherwise I dig dnf/rpm over any other combo I’ve tried.

For example - a one liner to identify all packages from a particular repo is trivial with dnf, huge pain with apt.

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I’m a pacman/yay guy myself. Haven’t used apt for too long. Even when I run something with apt, I install nala

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Dnf-5 was/is supposed to be a big speed improvement, no?

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Not sure. I have fedora 38 in a VM and it’s still very slow.

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Not targeted to be default until Fedora 41. So if you wanted to try it out you would have to install it your self.

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