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I am really considering moving from Arch to Fedora. What's your experience with this? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 week ago by unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@programming.dev
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Is the loss of pacman and AUR that bad?

What things are to be gained? I expect that SELinux and Redhat backing should really make fedora way more secure.

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[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I ran Arch for years, but I eventually realized I only really enjoyed Arch from a conceptual point of view.

The big plus for me is stability. I had a few major problems pop up after an update, and while I was able to fix them easily enough, It was still annoying that I had to do it. Fedora is nice and stable while not being too far behind.

The loss of the AUR wasn't that annoying because Fedora has the advantage of being one of the main OS's. A lot of developers treat it as a default