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!

  • BioMando@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    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)

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.socialOP
      0·
      1 year ago

      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

  • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de
    1·
    1 year ago

    there are ways to speed up dnf.

    id try adding:
    max_parallel_downloads=10
    and
    fastestmirror=true
    to your
    /etc/dnf/dnf.conf

    before you distro hop.

    kinda goofy that its not the default tho.

    EDIT: since its more about search, maybe try adding
    metadata_expire=2d
    aswell

  • ForbiddenRoot@lemmy.ml
    0·
    1 year ago

    The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed

    If you are on Fedora 38, have you tried dnf5 yet. You can install it with sudo dnf install dn5 dnf5-plugins. I used it only briefly before moving away from Fedora for other reasons, but it was much better than standard dnf. However, I am not sure it speeds up searches as well, though downloads were certainly much faster for me.

    • FarLine99@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Wait for Fedora 39. It will introduce dnf5 with much better speeds. Changing is not worth it in my opinion.