One of the few things that differentiates the major distros is the package manager. I’ve been running void on my laptop for the last 3 years and love it. XBPS is super fast and easy to use. It has never left me with a broken system either. That said, I’ve got the itch to switch.

I am looking at rolling / up to date distros. I’m inclined to use CLI when available.

I’ve been considering Opensuse, but last time I used zypper it was painfully slow. Has it gotten any better?

I was thinking of trying Alpine, how is APK?

Not interested in *butu, but apt seemed okay.

What’s your favorite and how does it behave?

  • @iopq
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    101 year ago

    You’re going to be impressed with NixOS. You might still hate it because of the learning curve, but it offers you the ability to have both stable and nightly packages in one system.

    If you mess something up, you can just boot into the previous configuration.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      71 year ago

      I know, so cool. I am open to learning, but I am not sure I am in for that depth of education :)

      • @mvirts
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        51 year ago

        Really nixos just needs a better wiki 😹

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          NixOS’ issue isn’t mainly the wiki, but rather general documentation.

          Still love it though but I always go through nixpkgs to look up stuff.