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I am really considering moving from Arch to Fedora. What's your experience with this? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is the loss of pacman and AUR that bad?

What things are to be gained? I expect that SELinux and Redhat backing should really make fedora way more secure.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It may be fixed and perfect, now, but I will never forgive Redhat for RPM, and by extension, every derivative. Fedora. CentOS. Anything rpm-based. I'm not a huge fan of debs, either, but I have never experienced dependency hell as bad as on rpm systems.

Lots of people like it. It's really popular for installing on a desktop configured to run an obscure, but mission-critical, service, putting the computer in a closet, and then later walling up the closet so that the physical computer can never be found again. It's great, as long as you never upgrade it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

On the topic of things to never forgive Redhat about, aren't there other things that are more pressing? Like, inventing a whole scheme to circumvent the idea of the GPL license via service contract blackmail?

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

Yes, but only one of those hurt me viscerally. The other was too abstract to take precedence.

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