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@vettnerk I don’t like Mint, because it looks ugly and dated. (But it is good that there is this distribution for all the boomers out there).
I don’t like arch, because what is the point, if you can use Fedora instead.
I don’t like Ubuntu, but the hate against it is much worse than the distribution itself.
Fedora and Arch are very different. That's like saying openSUSE and Fedora are the same, even that's not as extreme as your claim because they at least use the same package format.
@yum13241 I want a distribution with recent packages = Arch | Fedora
I want a stable and polished distribution = Fedora
I don’t care for the AUR as is not needed anymore in times of flatpak and distrobox.
I don't want to use a separate package manager with dumb douche.fuck.shit names, that's a problem for programs like crispy doom for example.
Native packages ftw