Post AZROOsgtBbf2VyMTYW by unfortunateshort@mastodon.online
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 (DIR) Post #AZRLXRBeVx4ZxO8h2u by corey@psipsistar.com
       2023-09-05T00:24:49Z
       
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       @lyonsinbeta The ELI5 reason is basically the xkcd "Standards" comic. For the most part, your package manager is tied to your distro, so if you're on Redhat, you'll use rpm, if you're on Debian you'll use apt, if you're on Arch, you'll use pacman, and such. There are reasons to prefer one distro over another but choice of package manager isn't (to me) a primary motivator. Flatpak and appimage are slightly different and try to solve the problem in a distro-independent way.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRLln0mATC9hNtZei by corey@psipsistar.com
       2023-09-05T00:27:27Z
       
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       @lyonsinbeta Anyone strong preferences for or against one or another probably has an ideological basis, more so than any practical effect.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRLpV3Yrm5LAcy2vg by corey@psipsistar.com
       2023-09-05T00:28:07Z
       
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       @lyonsinbeta Anyone with a strong preference for or against one or another is probably looking at it on an ideological basis.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZRLuIphjy4EhwmBhg by corey@psipsistar.com
       2023-09-05T00:28:59Z
       
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       @lyonsinbeta Anyone with a strong preference for or against one or another is probably looking at it on an ideological basis (or they're simply comfortable with what they know and not interested in learning something different). None of them are functionally that different from one another.
       
 (DIR) Post #AZROOsgtBbf2VyMTYW by unfortunateshort@mastodon.online
       2023-09-05T00:56:52Z
       
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       @corey @lyonsinbeta Arch is odd in that regard, because it was actually specifically designed to have a swappable package management frontend.The libalpm (Arch Linux Package Management) API was split off pacman at some point, to facilitate this flexibility. Yet most people use either pacman or a pacman wrapper like yay or paru.So even thought they explicitly gave users the freedom of choice, they just made a thing an everyone liked it 😄