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[–] 12 points 2 months ago

Apt because...it's all I know 😅

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I haven't used Gentoo in maybe 15 fifteen years or so but it was definitely the funnest to use

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    yeah, I loved it when I had the time for it. I used it on several machines as my daily driver back in the day. I can remember getting a new Thinkpad for work and deciding on Arch over Gentoo given the relative time commitment... then the disaster with the Gentoo wiki happened shortly thereafter and I've not run it since. I'm running Fedora Silverblue at the moment. glad you're carrying the torch!

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    AUR because it sometimes comes with bonus packages. Last week I downloaded a text editor and got a free crypto miner on the side

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think my favorite to use is apt, the various incantations you use the most are nicely spelled out and if you need some nitty gritty you can just call dpkg directly.

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    [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    dnf out of the two that I've tried. It's a little more streamlined than apt, it seems.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yum, because its reminds me of food.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Alpine apk, it is simple and really fast, and I love that there’s a file where I can just type the programs I want, and then it installs them. And with the chimera linux cbuild system it is just incredible

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    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Is brew a package manager? That.

    On macOS, but it seems like using apt on Linux (command line) back in the day.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Honestly I like most of them. they're all pretty good. that being said wasn't a fan of xbps. found it slow. Nix is great too. it's just so damn easy. especially if you use comma. I also like DNF. pacman's pretty good too especially when you add "ILoveCandy" to the conf. Portage is great too.

    But honestly out of all of them, and this isn't linux, but FreeBSD's is my favourite.

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    I like using apt packages as long as I am using nala as the CLI. it is such an upgrade.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    yay because it's fast and zypper because it's intuitive.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Apt-get is legit!

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    Apt4rpm.

    RPM has validation and checking that is second only to nix, and has had it for decades.

    Apt on top was the best thing conectiva ever did (but using apt for dist-upgrade and downgrade was also amazing).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Bazaar (flatpaks) because of its aesthetics and ease of use. Also, it's a good way to find niche apps directly published by their authors.

    I also now avoid the AUR altogether.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Well I dont know what to like about it, but I`m using mainly debian and fedora...so apt and dnf

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I like dnf a lot

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    apt and dnf

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