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[-] kelvie@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've used Linux for over two decades (red hat to Gentoo to Ubuntu to arch) and I must say it'll be a tough sell to get me back to an RPM or a debian based distro solely due to how god awfully slow the package managers (dpkg and rpm) are.

Since Docker came along and brought with it the ride of Alpine and APK, it made me realize that system upgrades on a modern processor, fast internet, and an SSD should take seconds, not minutes.

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