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.
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.
Which is - in my experience - another way of saying “if you don’t care that you’re running hopelessly obsolete versions of software, and don’t have access to about half the software available written in the past several years.” Even if you compile yourself, it’s often a game of bisecting a project’s history to find a point in the when it’ll compile against the ancient versions of libraries available on the system.
That’s been my experience, anyway.
For desktop/workstation users: the simple answer is just use the flatpak from Flathub or from some other source if you need a user package that doesn’t align to the ethos of your chosen distro. In most cases desktop Linux users have gone beyond self-packaging for specific library versions and just use a separate set of common libraries to power application needs beyond the out of box experience of any given distro. It’s part of why immutable distros are starting to take off and make more sense for desktop/workstation use-cases.
For servers, it’s in the nature to become part of the technical debt you are expected to maintain, and isn’t unique among RHEL, OpenSUSE Leap, Debian, Ubuntu, or any other flavor of distro being utilized.