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Choosing a distro based on repositories near me (programming.dev)

submitted 5 days ago by cactus_head@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Does the speed/location of repos factor into your choose of distro? I am in Egypt and while linux mint repos speeds are fine when updating and installing here, fedora and manjaro are incredibility slow, manjaro especially is the slowest, like maybe 30 minutes or more slow for an install that takes a few minutes in linux mint

I am assuming that ppl in the USA/Europe don't have this problem. Does anyone else have this same issue.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

I am fortunate enough that the speed of the package manager itself would make a bigger difference.

But connecting to a slow mirror can be a killer so, If that was a frequent problem for me, it would absolutely factor into my decision.

I guess the other factor is how often you are updating. For a rolling distro, it would be essential.

On Debian Stable, I would care a lot less. Just let it update overnight once in a while.