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

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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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[-] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 weeks ago

I made the same move a few years back and really like it. Can't say much regarding SELinux and security though. Regarding the AUR, it depends on how much you use it but I only rarely miss it. A lot of stuff that is not in the default fedora repos can be found in copr https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

[-] enemenemu@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Just use distrobox for aur. Nowadays I use nix pkg manager for everything that's not available

[-] Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I also use nix as a kind of air alternative

[-] enemenemu@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

It's so easy to use

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