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I am really considering moving from Arch to Fedora. What's your experience with this? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 weeks ago by unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[-] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Last I tried, about a year ago, dnf had some bug where it would load the entire package tree into memory and require more than a gig to run. Whenever I tried to update my a minimum spec VPS, the package manager would get OOM killed.

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