Hello fellow lemmings! Fedora KDE user here, and quite happy about it, it didn’t break a single time and packages are up to date. The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed… a single search may take up to 5 seconds, and if I’m dependency-hunting I may need several searches, summing up the delays. I’m asking if switching to openSUSE Tumbleweed could be a good idea or not. The idea of the rolling release is really intriguing, whole system upgrades always makes me nervous, and zypper, being written in C++, should be faster than DNF.
I would stick to Wayland KDE, as my current fedora setup.
Other than this, I don’t see any other obvious pros or cons, so I’m asking you: why should I switch and why shouldn’t I? any tips from someone who used both?
thanks in advance!
If you’re changing for the sake of package manager speed, don’t. The few seconds here and there don’t really amount to much.
However, tumbleweed, being a rolling release, to me, means that it kind of killed the distro hopping adiction. Everything is stable and updated frequently (albeit not bleeding edge, as to have time to test the packages)
If you’re changing for the sake of package manager speed, don’t.
It’s not the only motivation, but the one that convinced me to look around after more than 2 years on fedora. The rolling release is another motivation
Then give tumbleweed a try! I think you’ll like what it offers.
Fedora also has a rolling release version called rawhide
Would installing doas instead of sudo on Fedora fix this or would both still utilize dnf?
I never heard of it, what are the pros/cons?
Open doas handles admin activity through the command line. It is only ~3,000 lines of code, while sudo has ~170,000 lines. doas does 90% of sudo commands and is more secure as well. Mental Outlaw has a great video on the topic.
there are ways to speed up dnf.
id try adding:
max_parallel_downloads=10
and
fastestmirror=true
to your
/etc/dnf/dnf.confbefore you distro hop.
kinda goofy that its not the default tho.
EDIT: since its more about search, maybe try adding
metadata_expire=2d
aswellThe only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed
If you are on Fedora 38, have you tried
dnf5yet. You can install it withsudo dnf install dn5 dnf5-plugins. I used it only briefly before moving away from Fedora for other reasons, but it was much better than standarddnf. However, I am not sure it speeds up searches as well, though downloads were certainly much faster for me.Wait for Fedora 39. It will introduce dnf5 with much better speeds. Changing is not worth it in my opinion.
