• The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’m only 4 months into Linux, and apt is my comfort zone. Checking out other distros that use something else has me running away like:

    • Laser@feddit.org
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      9 months ago

      pacman is very fast and handy. The (in)famous pacman -Syu had you system completely up to date in record time.

      Sometimes I miss its speed and simplicity

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      9 months ago

      YSK/PSA: If you’re on Mint, Mint’s apt is not Debian’s apt and while they work similarly for common use cases, they diverge pretty quickly beyond that. Both are installed by default but Mint’s takes precedence.*

      Case in point: I was looking for which package - specifically one that was not yet installed - contains a certain command line tool and Mint’s apt search does not find it. Debian’s does. **

      On the other hand, Mint’s apt has way more subcommands than the default one, which have been useful on occasion.

      * Mint’s is at /usr/local/bin/apt and Debian’s is at /usr/bin/apt; The default user $PATH puts /usr/local/bin before /usr/bin.

      ** FWIW, the tool is/was sponge and it’s in the moreutils package.

      • Bobo The Great@startrek.website
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        9 months ago

        I wonder why apt search on ubuntu and debian must be so bad: on mint each package has a single line and an easy letter telling you if the program is installed or not. On debian/ubuntu each program takes multiple lines, are all green and the only way to distinguish installed ones is to look for an (installed) string at the end of the first line. I like Mint’s apt version so much

  • ranzispa@mander.xyz
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    9 months ago

    I used all of them. Out of the three apt is the one I dislike the most. Dnf is half baked, but works well enough anyway. Pacman is actually very nice, I just don’t use arch anymore.