Compared By Speed: Apt vs Dnf vs Pacman, Gentoo, XBPS

I installed Vim with five popular Linux package managers to find out, which distribution is slowest to install software on - Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Void or Gentoo? The results are shown in the video!

[julyapril]

In Fedora you skipped repos sync. In distance it will slow everything af

[zukxxxx]

apt isn't aptitude package. apt stands for advanced packaging tool. Aptitude is another package manager

[jamesmackinnon]

I will say, xbps can be very fast, but I find the largest thing holding it back is how slow the repos for void are, especially depending on where you are.

[arycassios]

Ranking:

1 - pacman (2 : 05)
2 - xBPS (2 : 09)
3 - dnf (6 : 19)
4 - apt-get (7 : 14)
5 - emerge (∞)

[Psyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

You can't compare portage to other package managers because it compiles everything

[DFOwl]

I absolutely love pacman. It is one of the biggest reasons I switched to arch. While I know that it can be installed for other distros, I am so used to arch now that I really don't want to switch.

[leonbishop]

portage speed is mostly cpu-bound, while other ones are network-bound and implementation-bound(or whatever it's called)

[vaisakh_km]

Legent has it Gentoo is still compiling that vim to this day

[rw_panic_]

honestly I would rather wait 5 minutes more to download a package than have a full system update on Arch that break my entire system

[dakata]

Comparing Portage to other package managers is just unfair

[independent]

0:20 This music was made in LMMS; i can hear organ_leslie, cheesy bell, and various other default synths from the app.

[DrSharoyko]

Absolutely fell in love with your channel, you have a talent for being funny!!! Hope you get the best from the world! <3 found you through the go vs rust video.

[wilfredv]

The best of portage is the music in background every time you decide to use it.

[ruleelur]

Cool video but I suggest to find a package that is less configurable than vim. It's quite possible that each distro has their own version of vim with stuff that is enabled or not. Also it matters to which server do you connect so that they all have the same downloading speed. This doesn't mean pacman isn't going to be anyway the fastest :-)

[itildude]

Haha, I love the musical changes. That slow lolly gagging tune on apt was hysterical. Emerge was classic too.

[weswheel]

Gentoo ftw! I never gave Arch a proper go tbh, going to try it this weekend.

[JonathanSteadman]

Yaya love this. I use Manjaro and Linux mint. Although I used to use Arch on a very old pc.

Good video. 🥰

[rarogcmex]

Gentoo is one love! Cause I have 24 intel Xeon cores in my old server-as-desktop.

[francescovolpini]

xbps -S syncs the repos before downloading, so it's some time being lost there. i felt like pointing it out since you only updated the repos on void

[DasIllu]

Hate apt as much as you want, but after 20 years, i would just miss it and get emotional :D
I mean it was to my knowledge the first useful, user friendly and stable package manager.
I'm still in therapy because i used rpm one in the 90's ;-)