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!

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    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