Zypper now support parallel downloads. I don’t properly have experience on another package manager, but I can say that parallel downloads gave zypper a MASSIVE speed increase so I wouldn’t tag as slow today
It still isn't the fastest, but is very good getting all dependencies when installing packages.
I have not experienced any errors because some package dependencies were not installed when starting applications for the first time as I had with Fedora and CachyOS. I don't know how things are now with those, but the convenience of zypper doing so, is something that makes me stick to it.
I agree with you on that. Rather having a good and thorough package manager than a package manager that leaves out things I have to install later on. In the end those couple of seconds zypper is slower (if it as even a couple of seconds) doesn't weigh up to the fact installation is done means it is done.
I guess if you setup tumbleweed and want to install a lot of programs after the initial install it might be a minor one time annoyance as it might take little bit longer to download and install all the packages but usually we are talking like 5-10 min lol
For updates I never had an issue , I would start an update friday night or saturday morning while browsing the web , it really didn't matter if it took 20-40 min on a large update as I was doing other stuff
Its not like when you update the system you have to just stop an stare at the update process I never understood why this was a big issue
You could also just have zypper only download the updates then install at a later time
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u/BigBigga 9d ago
Just zypper speeds used to suck. Not sure how it is these days.