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

  • @GnomeComedy@beehaw.org
    1•2 years ago

    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.

    • @penquin@lemm.ee
      1•2 years ago

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