On 2022-06-10 14:56, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
I don't feel like ever putting up with an rpm based distribution ever again. Having made both rpm and deb packages over the years, I am not surprised that the package quality is much higher on deb based systems. The rpm format is simply a bad design in comparison. I gave up on redhat around version 7 due to quality problems (that would be version 7 back before there was a RHEL thing) and have no intension to ever look at it again if possible.
I put up with opensuse at work because that's what they standardized on, and the yocto stuff I work on is using rpm but we don't actually really use the packages at all in that case, and it is automated by yocto. I definitely don't need anymore of it.
And given all I want a linux desktop to do is display windows, let me minimize, maximize and resize the windows in a normal way, and be able to launch programs by hitting alt+f2 and typing the name, I tend to just stick with xfce which is nice and lightweight. I don't want a file manager of any kind nor do I care to have menus for launching things. :)
Defiantly a case of YMMV. I have no time for debs or Debian and its derivatives in general. I got tired of having to apply security patches and rebuild kernels in a production environment so I went back to RH and never looked back. I find RPMs trivial to rebuild and deploy. But that is just me. -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||