this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2024
875 points (96.0% liked)

linuxmemes

20880 readers
4 users here now

I use Arch btw

Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
875
Indeed (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
194 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

no way anyone would voluntarily use apt after using pacman

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

well, for 90% of users it makes literally no difference whatsoever. It's just the command you have to type in so you can get new software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

As someone who used to use Arch a decade ago: I still use pacman for devkitpro at least, and I do miss how fast its parallel downloads get, but the tool I use to manage packages is far from the most important difference between distros to me, even if you assume not needing AUR.

[–] NostraDavid 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I unironically prefer apt over pacman, simply because my monkeybrain got addicted to running pacman -S (that was how to update, right?) and I dropped in productivity. apt is just "nah fam, there's nothing new for you" most days, which gives me the quiet time I want and need.

I ran Manjaro BTW. It was nice while it lasted, but Debian is my new friend now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The difference here is more between release types, I think. Arch is rolling, so there are updates you can get every few minutes. Debian is a rock, and rocks aren't known for moving a lot.

(The command is sudo pacman -Syu btw)