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.)

  • think1984@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    To speed up DNF:

    /etc/dnf/dnf.conf  
...
max_parallel_downloads=5
max_parallel_connections=20

    I have found that RHEL/Rocky/Alma are very much faster at updating using DNF than Fedora, though I don’t know why.