Favorite package managers

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  • Snap
  • Flatpak
  • Appimage
  • Homebrew
  • DNF
  • Zypper
  • Packman
  • Other
  • Apt
  • Dpkg
  • RPM
  • Portage
  • Nix
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I’m not sure this poll is working properly.

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Whats not working?

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It’s doing what you want?

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I believe so

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It’s multiple choice, is that what your talking about?

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I am just confused by what the percentages mean.

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I allways thought I didn’t like dnf, in fedora it seemed slow. But’ yet again the OM devs with there Gandelf levels of wizardry that is incomprehensible to mear mortals have made it so updates and installs are almost as snappy as the os install its self. After using it for a couple of weeks now I think it is as easy if not more so than apt to use. Both are deffinitely simpler to remember than pacman which may as well be in hieroglyphics for the uninitiated. Strange thing, no votes for snap yet.

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Pacman , not Packman :slight_smile:

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Coming here from Nix, I have to say that OM’s fng is a lot better than Fedoras. I would have said prior to being here that nix was superior to almost everything because of how it handled packages, but dnf is fantastic on OM

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Since switching from Ubuntu, I’ve really enjoyed DNF. With that said, there’s a front-end for APT called Nala that I really enjoyed using over the standard APT. Nala allowed you to designate specific numbers of mirrors for parallel downloads, so it sped things up quite a bit compared to the usual. So far, though, DNF with OMLx has pretty much been just as fast.

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I agree, I have been impressed by the speed.

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Sorry for being a pain in the ass but appimage, is not a package manager it is a executable container format. you just run it ./something.appimage
That is also partially true for snap and flatpak yet technically there is a command
sudo snap install and flatpak install so technically they are package managers

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I tried most of them, and honestly it’s mostly about getting used to their formatting. Once the habit sets in, they’re pretty much more of the same. DNF does seem faster than APT to me. The slowlier being Zypper.

I personally prefer Flakpaks, as they’re almost universally compatible and make most apps available on any distro.

PRO TIP: check out “Gear Lever”. It’s a Flatpak app for managing Appimage. It’s hands down the best I’ve tried, making installing, deleting and updating Appimage quick and painless. The app is regularly updated and has a very sleek UI too.

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You’re technically right. However I’m glad Appimage are included in this poll, just for having a global feel of their popularity.

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Dnf is still slow on OM for me, I did not see much of a difference between fedora and OM in that matter. But the main factor for that may be that there is no OM repos in my country, not the OM dns sped it self.

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Even as a Fedora package maintainer and I have spent lots of time with the RPM tooling, my favorite is the Alpine Package Keeper(APK), all operations are super snappy.

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I still quite like APT-RPM even though its ancient.