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?

  • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Not a global opinion here as many hardcore linux users will stand by Arch or Mint, but I always have preferred Debian. It’s what Ubuntu is based on, so it uses apt(itude), yet it’s not prebloated Ubuntu and much more true to adaptation and unedited software than Ubuntu has become… But in the end it’s more personal choice and taste, so usually requires a bunch of failed attempts to get one that fits, as every linux can basically do the same things, yet on some or other slightly different way… 😜

    • Andy@programming.dev
      8·
      1 year ago

      I just want to add that for Debian with a rolling, up-to-date experience, Siduction does that nicely.

        • Charlatan@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Thanks, Sid hasn’t been on my radar. Ill go have a look. I happen to have a ZFS box up in rsync.net running Debian, and it’d be nice to learn more about CLI in the deb world.

          • Andy@programming.dev
            4·
            1 year ago

            Just clarifying in case there’s a mix-up: Siduction is a desktop distro based on Debian Sid, not exactly the same distro. It’s my favorite take on Debian so far but honestly I always have something to grumble about in apt-world.

            • Charlatan@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Gotcha. I looked at Seduction the bistro and I’m inclined to give it a trial alongside a few others.

            • Doctor xNo@r.nfEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I did kinda assume you meant Debian’s Sid, tbh. Hadn’t heard of Siduction as a Distro. Siduction being the actual long name of Debian Sid sounded very plausible. 😅

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      No. Debian package update status is annoying. And I am on testing…on top of that, apt is decent but I don’t see anything special about it.