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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It still takes forever to update compared to more traditional package managers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I never notice any update times, as the default in Fedora is to auto-update (I think?). Everything is just always up to date.

Edit: coming from ten years of Arch, this has significantly reduced my time fixing things related to an update 😆

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

Yeah I disabled those because my Internet is shit. I'm also on fedora and when I update, the 3 flatpak apps that I have installed take as long as my entire system to update. But I get it doesn't make much of a difference if it just happens in the background