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The wonderful world of Linux package managers (thelibre.news)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Wow, something positive about Linux package managers?

I've been hearing nothing but bitching and moaning for the past 10 years for no reason, to the point where I'm suspecting that this is Microsoft sponsoring a bunch of assholes to keep posting negative things about Linux.

Package managers are awesome and always have been afaiac.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Package managers are great.
You've been hearing about Snaps specifically.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no, snaps are the worst.

I'm talking apt and RPM, specifically

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

These package managers are essentially the utopic vision of what apple and Microsoft wishes it could be

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps the message is changing now, after they have kind of caught up finally. How long did it take, 20 years?

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

It's still the same apt. I believe fedora now uses something else, dnf or something like that. Either way, apt has worked fantastic for me for 99.9% of the time in the past 20 years, I'm not complaining

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fedora has always used their own. Dpkg was released in 1994, RPM in 1997.

My comment was about Windows and MacOS kinda catching up in 2020s.