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XBPS has spoiled me - advice needed. (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by Charlatan@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] Andy@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

APK/Alpine is great! And the Edge repos are well stocked.

Chimera Linux seems to be using even newer apktools than Alpine, not sure what the deal with that is. But that distro is still in early stages with limited repos for now.

Pacman/makepkg/Arch is great too, and an obvious consideration for your usage, curiously omitted from your post.

[–] Charlatan@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah Chimera. I've been looking at that the last two days. I am really tempted to give it a shot. My laptop is mostly for playing around these days. Are you running it?

I forgot about Arch. I ran Manjaro for a year and didn't have the best experience. 'Course I was pretty green on Linux then.

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

EndeavourOS is a better Arch experience. If you were to look back into it I would recommend it over Manjaro.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

No unfortunately I haven't tried Chimera yet, but its design is close to my ideal distro. I'd especially love to see its package repos fill up, but the selection is tight as it stands.