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What is a distro with updates of Arch but dependencies of Fedora? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently using EndeavourOS, but am annoyed by the constant daily updates of 1GB and pacman not installing important dependencies automatically (ex: spell checker for document editor). I like the way Fedora works: you update whenever, important dependencies are downloaded automatically, and packages are recent-ish, but I don't like that it takes forever to run dnf. I don't want to use Manjaro (apparently it breaks quickly?), and the distro needs to support KDE. I know about Flatpak, but I don't want to download 1GB of data for each app. Are there any good options?

(Yes, I can probably deal with Fedora, but dnf is slower than apt, and I don't want to deal with external repositories for non-free software.)

EDIT: I do not want to tweak or edit configuration files, I just need something that has up to date packages and "just works".

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There's openSUSE tumbleweed. It's rpm based like fedora and it's rolling-release like arch. I don't know what the 3rd party/nonfree software situation is like. Maybe someone else can chime in on that front.

I will add, as an arch user, I think you could easily tweak your current system to be less annoying with the updates, but I realize that's not the question you're asking so feel free to disregard that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

OP is complaining about dnf being too slow. I've heard zypper is even worse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I love opensuse but zypper is the slowest thing in the world. It takes it several minutes just to refresh repositories a lot of the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you love openSuSE, never look under the packaging hood. Last time I did, it was horrific

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I love using opensuse, don't worry I have tried to make packages with obs and it did not go well. But then again I'm bad at making packages for most things.