One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.

One of the strongest points of Linux is the package management. In 2025, the world of Linux package management is very varied, with several options available, each with their advantages and trade-offs over the others.

  • Phoenixz
    19•2 months ago

    Wow, something positive about Linux package managers?

    I’ve been hearing nothing but bitching and moaning for the past 10 years for no reason, to the point where I’m suspecting that this is Microsoft sponsoring a bunch of assholes to keep posting negative things about Linux.

    Package managers are awesome and always have been afaiac.

    • Omega
      2•2 months ago

      These package managers are essentially the utopic vision of what apple and Microsoft wishes it could be

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 months ago

      Perhaps the message is changing now, after they have kind of caught up finally. How long did it take, 20 years?

      • Phoenixz
        1•2 months ago

        It’s still the same apt. I believe fedora now uses something else, dnf or something like that. Either way, apt has worked fantastic for me for 99.9% of the time in the past 20 years, I’m not complaining

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 months ago

          Fedora has always used their own. Dpkg was released in 1994, RPM in 1997.

          My comment was about Windows and MacOS kinda catching up in 2020s.

    • caseyweederman
      3•2 months ago

      Package managers are great.
      You’ve been hearing about Snaps specifically.

      • Phoenixz
        2•2 months ago

        Oh no, snaps are the worst.

        I’m talking apt and RPM, specifically