• Goun@lemmy.ml
      82·
      8 months ago

      I use apt-get, I don’t care about how “pleasing” the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way… But pacman… I don’t know why, but it’s so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?

      • t0mri@lemmy.ml
        14·
        8 months ago

        exactly. They use c and C (uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicator

        btw dont think im crazy but ive set max parallel downloads to 200 and when i do a system update, damn that looks so good.

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        I don’t care how visually pleasing it is either, but I often find apt(-get) difficult to read.

        For example, a simple thing that zypper does, is that when listing the packages to be installed, it colors the first letter of each package, which makes it a lot easier to scan through the packages.

    • kellenoffdagrid❓️@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      8 months ago

      Yeah seriously, I was surprised at how plain and illegible rpm-ostree felt in comparison to dnf, I really wish they put a little color or some extra separation just to make it feel less cramped and give people more glanceable info.

  • frozencow@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 months ago

    Nix with nix-output-monitor (nom). https://github.com/maralorn/nix-output-monitor

    It shows the tree of packages to download and to build. It shortens the tree in realtime when packages have finished downloading/building and lengthens the tree when it finds more packages it needs to handle. Very fun and satisfying.

    I haven’t seen this in other package managers.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      132·
      8 months ago

      Omg apt is like the worst UI there is.

      Have a look at nala! It needs some depencies but is a huge upgrade

      • TGhost [She/Her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        8 months ago

        Ah ah i will one day.

        I clearly agree, apt is ugly and even synaptic making it better. But like i said, while ago when I used synaptic I did break my packages and I got to use dpkg and apt, to repair.

        Since, I guess, I’m on a PTSD about it and now just use apt or dpkg, when using a Debian or Debian based system.

        But I will listen to you, and for sure will give it a try

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          3·
          8 months ago

          Nala is an apt wrapper, it just displays stuff better, automates updates and automatically chooses the fastest mirror (thats the stuff I know)

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
        1·
        8 months ago

        apt is easy to use and read. I haven’t dreamed of searching for a shiny replacement because there’s no problem to solve.

  • Ryan@lemmy.world
    6·
    8 months ago

    I really like emerge/portage, even w/out the “candy” feature enabled. Great color highlighting, and verbose messages about any config change(s) needed.

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
      1·
      8 months ago

      Ohh it’s been a long time since I last used gentoo! I remember I used to love the green/blue (I hope my memory isn’t failing me) combination everywhere </3.

      I stopped using it because building the updates on multiple machines was becoming a pain and had a couple of drives fail, but those were good times!

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    62·
    8 months ago

    Either flatpak or NixOs for me.

    Flatpak is just light and doesn’t flood the user with 720710 lines just to say “installing Firefox”

    NixOs just straight up has nothing to show.

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.com
    2·
    28 days ago

    I still love aptitude TUI even though I don’t use Debian anymore.

    Next is dnf because it’s clear with obvious subcommands.