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:
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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
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You can basically take that statement and replace βaptβ with βwhatever the first package tool I usedβ and it would be true for anyone.
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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.
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don't let this type of bantering concern you
we are all just splitting hairs and knocking each other's preferences when it is basically trivial. Like BMW and Mercedes drivers trying to one up who drives the superior German car
Thatβs easy Mercedes hasnβt made the superior car since the 80βs
sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y
=
sudo dnf update -y
For most systems. If you can get apt you can get any of them.
The feds don't want you to know this but you can just put "-U" at the end of sudo apt upgrade and it updates before upgrading.
what the fuck
If they are suppressing this, what else arenβt they telling us
vim has a built-in autocomplete you can use by pressing ctrl-n during interactive mode.
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I should really get around to RTFM.
For me, pacman is my comfort zone. Fast, reliable and easy to handle. But apt was it for a long time as well.
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The humans are chocolatey right?
And the worms are winget.
Pacman is great until you forget to delete your lock file because you interrupted an update and wonder why it isn't working.
APT is user-friendly, but a pain to automate in scripts.
the real winner is compiling from source. π
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After using dnf a bit:
- All the default answers are backwards to me, so
dnfquite literally ignores my input. dnf searchdid not show, by default, if a matching package is already installed.- Perfect perhaps for newbies, since dnf asks you trice.
yeah.. arch is not leaving me anytime soon. The option to makepkg from source a few custom packages is very neat.
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Pacman will start the fight as soon as all packages are up to date, assuming no packages push updates in the time it takes to update (unlikely).
My addled brain read this as apartment vs Duke Nukem Forever.
Why are they fighting? *shrug*
I'm guessing whoever made this uses arch btw.
For me apt is faster only 3 letters
I mean... that's not incorrect, but...
>>> len("apt update && apt upgrade")
25
>>> len("pacman -Syu")
11
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