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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What do you like about your Linux Distro? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use Fedora 38, it's stable, things just work, and the software is up-to-date.

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

pacman/yay

Also, Arch wiki.

All else is aesthetics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ever tried paru? Did the jump a while ago and it is slightly better, the best kind of better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've been messing with paru to gauge its functionality against yay.

So far I'm unimpressed. The cli display is somewhat tidier/neat. I like that. But when it comes to actually installing something, it's less than stellar.

For instance, if I want to skip any confirmation, I can use the undocumented flag --noconfirm. But that only works if I'm passing the flag to install, -S. If, say, I'm searching for a package, simply typing paru <package>, then the interactive menu no longer works. It simply exits with the message 'nothing to do'.

yay, on the other hand, works flawlessly with the --noconfirm flag.

I noticed that paru has some upgrading/updating features that are nice. I might use it once in a while to upgrade/update the system. But that's pretty much it for now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for reminding me of paru! I've checked and I have it installed already. But I confess that I'm so used to yay that I completely forgot about paru.

Do you have any paru tutorial you recommend?