1 yr. ago • 95%

Package Managers

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You forgot every linux user’s favorite package manager: Snap

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  apt purge snap
  
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  Had to do that yesterday.
  
  Have a Nextcloud instance running and wanted to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04.
  
  Couldn't do it because Ubuntu would not connect to the snap-store because the service wouldn't start.
  
  A purge later and now I'm running Jammy Jellyfish.
  
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- Flatpak!
  
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- I guess snap goes on the pink suit.
  
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I can't type dnf without thinking "did not finish." I can't even remember what it's supposed to stand for anymore.

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- You mean do not fuck?
  
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  dnf packages or you might get paper cuts.
  
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- Similarly, I read winget as "wing it". The traditional package managers had better names: apt, yum, pacman. I know it's a terrible reason to like a package manager, but still, a good name goes a long way.
  
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You forgot RPM

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- You're right. I did.
  
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  Yum too
  
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No love for flatpaks?

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- There never was love for flatpaks and there never will be. I’ll never forgive them for killing my son.
  
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  I’ll never forgive them for killing my son.
  
  Jeez, howd did you manage to fuck up a flatpak install that bad?
  
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- Firefox flaptak, can't play a video and go back a few seconds, or the video freezes but audio continues. Such a basic feature and it's broken...
  
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  I never noticed that issue. Do you have hardware acceleration and Wayland mode (if applicable) enabled?
  
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As someone who has to administer several hundred Windows servers and several thousand Windows workstations in our fleet (alongside our Linux and Mac systems), I was very sad that winget was not as good as I had hoped for. Chocolatey is still far better IMO, and neither is anywhere near as good as apt, rpm, etc.

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Zypper

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Don't forget apk! It's FAST!

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Wish you guys would hurry up and figure out the appropriate communities to post in

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WingetUI handles winget, chocolatey and scoop. Nice little project for casual Windows users.

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choco

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Which category would you put scoop in? I like it and use it regularly on windows, I find it much better than choco. No experience with Winget

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- I don't have any experience with scoop, but if you like it that's great. I don't want to yuck anyone's yum.
  
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I don't use neither arch nor void, but I have to leave this unpopular(?) opinion out somewhere: xbps is a million times better than pacman simply for tracking dll dependencies.

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- xbps is the worst one out of all of them
  
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  Its interface is pretty meh I'll give you that
  
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Don't you dare put nix together with these fossils of package management.

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Too niche, don't get it 🙄

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- Linux package managers on the left, windows package manager on the right
  
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