On 2022-06-10 14:56, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
I don't feel like ever putting up with an rpm based distribution ever
again.  Having made both rpm and deb packages over the years, I am not
surprised that the package quality is much higher on deb based systems.
The rpm format is simply a bad design in comparison.  I gave up on redhat
around version 7 due to quality problems (that would be version 7 back
before there was a RHEL thing) and have no intension to ever look at it
again if possible.

I put up with opensuse at work because that's what they standardized on,
and the yocto stuff I work on is using rpm but we don't actually really
use the packages at all in that case, and it is automated by yocto.
I definitely don't need anymore of it.

And given all I want a linux desktop to do is display windows, let me
minimize, maximize and resize the windows in a normal way, and be able
to launch programs by hitting alt+f2 and typing the name, I tend to just
stick with xfce which is nice and lightweight.  I don't want a file
manager of any kind nor do I care to have menus for launching things. :)


Defiantly a case of YMMV.
I have no time for debs or Debian and its derivatives in general.
I got tired of having to apply security patches and rebuild kernels in a production environment so I went back to RH and never looked back.
I find RPMs trivial to rebuild and deploy.
But that is just me.

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