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[โ€“] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (16 children)

Edit it is so perfectly fitting for the Linux community to respond with mostly criticisms and negations to these flowcharts I shared without a single negative commenter actually suggesting a different similar helpful resource for newbies to Linux who feel overwhelmed or adding something productive and helpful to the conversation.

Do better y'all.

You can't condescend these resources and pretend with a handwave like there are better ones out there, you gotta prove it. If you are going to pick apart these charts then you gotta make a new chart or link me to a better one, I don't care about your condescending minor criticisms of the specifics of the flowcharts, that is irrelevant input unless you are going to edit a flowchart and make a new one or add something else productive.

I feel like I am inside a meme making fun of Linux users right now lol.

https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/347408

https://lemmy.ca/post/53099450

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  • [โ€“] 80 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I appreciate the effort put into this but if answering yes to "are you new to Linux?" leads to the follow up question "apt or rpm?" then there's a problem.

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  • [+] -13 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Exactly. One is a package format and/or local package utility, and the other is a frontend to do downloads and updates for that local package utility.

    Should be "rpm or dpkg"


    assuming that we're excluding the other options


    and then if someone chooses RPM, you can start talking about the frontend:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager

    Front ends

    Several front-ends to RPM ease the process of obtaining and installing RPMs from repositories and help in resolving their dependencies. These include:

    • yum used in Fedora Linux, CentOS 5 and above, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and above, Scientific Linux, Yellow Dog Linux and Oracle Linux
    • DNF, introduced in Fedora Linux 18 (default since 22), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8, and CentOS Linux 8.
    • up2date used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS 3 and 4, and Oracle Linux
    • Zypper used in Mer (and thus Sailfish OS), MeeGo,[16] openSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • urpmi used in Mandriva Linux, ROSA Linux and Mageia
    • apt-rpm, a port of Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) used in Ark Linux,[17] PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux
    • Smart Package Manager, used in Unity Linux, available for many distributions including Fedora Linux.
    • rpmquery, a command-line utility available in (for example) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • libzypp, for Sailfish OS

    Then for dpkg, you can choose from among aptitude, apt, apt-get/apt-query/etc, graphical frontend options like synaptic that one may want to use in parallel with the TUI-based frontends, etc.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    gentoo for small computing power?? no offense, but that's bonkers ๐Ÿ˜น

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    gentoo for small computing power?? no offense, but thatโ€™s bonkers ๐Ÿ˜น

    Why?

    Surely if you've low computing power, you want to make the best of it... Gentoo can help with that.

    Tight compile flags, choosing USE flags carefully to be minimal and snug to meet needs, can make a very very lean efficient-running crisp-feeling system for when you're using it.

    Or, if your concern is more about the package install time, just use the official binhost [the -g option on emerge commands is your friend], and minimise USE flag changes, and then it's as fast as any other distro with precompiled binary packages.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Lots of pro-Ubuntu propaganda in those flow charts. At this point, Ubuntu of any flavor shouldn't be recommended to anyone. There are always better alternatives.

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