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[–] t0mri@lemmy.ml 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I use apt-get, I don't care about how "pleasing" the package manager is, I just want it to do its job and get off the way.. But pacman.. I don't know why, but it's so beautiful, charming and cute, how do they do it?

[–] t0mri@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

exactly. They use c and C (uppercase) alternatively, making it look like pacman is eating. hence the beautiful, charming, and cute progress indicator

btw dont think im crazy but ive set max parallel downloads to 200 and when i do a system update, damn that looks so good.

[–] bzxt@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can have actual Pacman emoji for the progress :)

[–] t0mri@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

I don't care how visually pleasing it is either, but I often find apt(-get) difficult to read.

For example, a simple thing that zypper does, is that when listing the packages to be installed, it colors the first letter of each package, which makes it a lot easier to scan through the packages.