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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    You don't miss out on anything if it does what you need.

    For me apt is just slow and clunky, don't like the way some of the commands are and they are long, I prefer the way that pacman and portage do it where I can make commands be sinple and only be couple characters instead of whole words.

    I liked pacman because it was fast, and it was really easy to block a package from upgrading and downgrading packages is really easy.

    I liked portage because it worked with program's sources so I was able to just remove part's of program's and their dependencies I didn't need.

    I like nix now because of the way it manages dependencies, and for the fact that packaing programs in it is really easy to do.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

    That first sentence is what I love about Linux bros. For all the supposed gatekeeping and pretentiousness that goes on in these circles, i find this to be much more representative of my experience. As i said elsewhere in the thread, im really not very well versed in all that Linux is/can be. And yet, somehow someway, ive never really felt put down for it when seeking help.

    Before this comment, i honestly didnt know there could be such preferences to ur package managers.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

    For me, it's quite the opposite. I love that apt commands are so close to natural language.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    Nala is a great apt frontend. It supports parallel downloads of packages and speeds up the whole process up a lot.

    Not sure which commands irk you as too long. Nala makes a good overview of changes like which package is bumped to what version and where it stands now. So I basically only use

    nala upgrade

    and take it from there. Updates the sources, lists the diff for upgradable packages and ask me to go forward or abort.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

    Just the pure act of installing a package is longer than with pacman for example.

    And the way that apt has seperated regular package and -dev packages irks me a lot when I need a library for something I need to make sure to install a =dev package compared to most other package manager where libraries are installed with the lackage itself.