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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What is the most visually pleasing package manager (in terminal)? (self.linux)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Sunny to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] kerneltux@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I really like emerge/portage, even w/out the "candy" feature enabled. Great color highlighting, and verbose messages about any config change(s) needed.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Portage remains to this day my favorite cli. It's nice to look at and provides all the info I want.

It's the one thing I miss from gentoo...

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why miss it? It is still there.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

"waves vaguely"

Portage was great but losing a day whenever there was a glibc upgrade or something that caused a more "exciting" upgrade than usual wasn't worth it. I wanted more stability after a while.

[–] poinck@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I can't remember ever having a glibc related update problem. eselect news is always there for me. (:

I only have rarely a perl update related problem, but usually solvable with a world update. And since there are now binpkgs I only compile what has differing useflags from the selected profile. Portage has never been better!

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 7 months ago

Stability is for normies, embrace the compile times.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Ohh it's been a long time since I last used gentoo! I remember I used to love the green/blue (I hope my memory isn't failing me) combination everywhere </3.

I stopped using it because building the updates on multiple machines was becoming a pain and had a couple of drives fail, but those were good times!

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

i think you can filter this too. using stderr