I am currently using EndeavourOS, but am annoyed by the constant daily updates of 1GB and pacman not installing important dependencies automatically (ex: spell checker for document editor). I like the way Fedora works: you update whenever, important dependencies are downloaded automatically, and packages are recent-ish, but I don’t like that it takes forever to run dnf. I don’t want to use Manjaro (apparently it breaks quickly?), and the distro needs to support KDE. I know about Flatpak, but I don’t want to download 1GB of data for each app. Are there any good options?
(Yes, I can probably deal with Fedora, but dnf is slower than apt, and I don’t want to deal with external repositories for non-free software.)
To speed up DNF:
/etc/dnf/dnf.conf ... max_parallel_downloads=5 max_parallel_connections=20I have found that RHEL/Rocky/Alma are very much faster at updating using DNF than Fedora, though I don’t know why.
What about kinoite? Package manager runs in the packground, I can’t even tell if it’s fast or not, I don’t interact with it anymore (rarely). If you want another package manager or repository, just use a distrobox. https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Manjaro, even though not loved by most, does this, Arch based but few updates per time unit.
Important is subjective, do you consider Spanish spell checker important for your document editor? How about Arabic or Chinese? Why would you want all of that bloat installed by default? Better than whoever needs spell checker in a specific language installs that.
When you install a program Pacman lists the optional dependencies for it, just install the ones you want and that’s it.
As for daily updates you don’t need to update daily, just weekly or monthly is good enough, just because there are updates available doesn’t mean you should install them asap.
