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?

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you plan on trying Alpine, be aware that it’s based on musl and busybox, rather than glibc and systemd, or whichever replacement you would usually go for. It’s great for reproducible containers, but not so much for a desktop system

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the heads up. That is something I’ve taken into consideration. I am curious how long I’d last on musl.

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      1 year ago

      Its frustrating because Alpine gave me the fastest desktop. I dropped Alpine because some apps requires Glibc extensions !