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Debian (Testing) I used it for a good month, and man was I disappointed. Only some things are actually up to date and packaged correctly. The nvidia drivers don't load the drm module because it's not called nvidia-drm on Debian (testing) it's called nvidia-current-drm. Also apt is the worst package manager
why do you say apt is the worst pm?
If you need to install a package that the author messed up the dependency lists for your shit outta luck. Other than manually unzipping and installing it you're stuck. Searching for a package is hell cause it's a massive list with like 4 lines per package. Yay/pacman is the best package manager, because it's got quick commands and when you search for something you don't have to make a mental note of the names you can just type 1, 4, 17, etc to choose a package to install. Oh and there aren't built shorter commands for apt! You can't say apt in package you have to write out install every single time