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🚀 ¡Nueva encuesta quincenal! 🚀

📢 Hoy queremos saber: ¿Qué gestor de paquetes te resulta más cómodo en tu día a día? 🖥️✨

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@sharkitty Hello 👋

I'm definitely not trying to contradict you, coz ofc your experience IS your experience. Instead, i'm just offering a parallel example, to show that user anecdotes can be quite contrasting, & thus difficult for third parties to reliably extrapolate.

I typically go with #tumbleweed when I want a rolling release because it's more stable

Here i'm interpreting your use of "stable" to actually infer "reliable", given that by very definition, no rolling-release distro is stable [ie, constant, unchanging].

I used #openSUSE #Tumbleweed :opensuse:​ for 5-6 months. It had many fine attributes, but reliability was not one of them. At least three times iirc it annoyingly changed its filesystem to Read Only, necessitating my investigations & repairs. On numerous occasions i had to do battle with #zypper / #YAST coz of the dreaded #DependencyHell PITA. Ultimately, i tired of the stress, & changed... first to something else rolling, then to another something else rolling, being :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma [originally #X11, now #Wayland] 💜 . My #Arch system is now four years & two weeks old, & has been rock solid reliable. 🎉

So, i just wanted to mention generally; there's a lot of mythology about Arch "instability" / "unreliability", but that's certainly not been my own experience with it.

Fwiw.

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@benjaminhollon

Well, I ran `zypper search go |less`, then searched for 'compiler,' and gcc-go was the only entry with 'compiler' in the description.

The official go package says:
i+ | go | A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language | package

P.S., I sure as heck wish #OpenSuSE #zypper didn't assume you used a 160-column terminal. That's so annoying. I'm gonna have to come up with a `cut` filter for that