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  • Just the pure act of installing a package is longer than with pacman for example.

    And the way that apt has seperated regular package and -dev packages irks me a lot when I need a library for something I need to make sure to install a =dev package compared to most other package manager where libraries are installed with the lackage itself.



  • You don’t miss out on anything if it does what you need.

    For me apt is just slow and clunky, don’t like the way some of the commands are and they are long, I prefer the way that pacman and portage do it where I can make commands be sinple and only be couple characters instead of whole words.

    I liked pacman because it was fast, and it was really easy to block a package from upgrading and downgrading packages is really easy.

    I liked portage because it worked with program’s sources so I was able to just remove part’s of program’s and their dependencies I didn’t need.

    I like nix now because of the way it manages dependencies, and for the fact that packaing programs in it is really easy to do.



  • I would hapilly use linux mint if only it didn’t use apt, honestly don’t like it as a package manager.

    Ghere is also the fact that mint will have older versions of packages, for example neovim which I need to be latest version always.

    That’s why I loved arch and gentoo before, for their package managers and roling distro nature.

    Now I’m on nixos unstable and it’s currently my favourite unbreakable distro, and the nix package manager is really good and making my own pqckages is really easy.





  • What do you mean spend mental energy on keybindings? Sure it will take you a couple times to do them to remenber them but after that you will just know them without having to think about them.

    I don’t know if it took me more than a couple hours to learn enough keybindings to be more productive than in vscode, and later on I just learned more as I need them and am now able to use them without thinking about it.

    I used to spend more time searching for the button to click with a mouse and remembering in what menu it was than it took me to learn and use vim keybindings.

    But this is all diff from person to person.