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As I mentioned in my blog post, I also really like Arch. And I definitely understand the benefits to sticking to a single distro on multiple systems. But as a

As I mentioned in my blog post, I also really like Arch. And I definitely understand the benefits to sticking to a single distro on multiple systems. But as a long term Fedora user who used Arch as a daily driver for a year and a half because of Asahi, and now just switched back to Fedora because of Asahi, I have a solid appreciation for the benefits that Fedora provides over Arch. In short, I like Fedora more than Arch (and I really like Arch). Of course, everyone is different, but if you start using Fedora Asahi Remix, there's a good chance you'll put Fedora on everything after a few weeks... just like me, Linus Torvalds, and everyone else who joined the dark side ;-)

frankjr 3y ago
Just curious, is there something similar to AUR on Fedora? It's a big selling point for me.
- jasoneckert 3y ago
  The AUR and PKGBUILDs are pretty much just an Arch thing. But on a distro like Fedora, where the default repo is fairly complete and well-groomed (with the odd package hosted in a 3rd party repo), having something like the AUR is a moot point IMO.
- user1205394 3y ago
  Fedora has "Cool Other Package Repositories" or COPR. They're a place for community members to build and publish arbitrary RPM packages. Some are well curated and high quality, others less so.
  - jasoneckert 3y ago
    Thanks for mentioning this! I heard of COPR a while back but never really explored it until this morning after I saw your mention. It definitely could be considered an alternative to AUR/PKGBUILD for Fedora (and it has >24,000 packages already hosted on https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/).
  - frankjr 3y ago
    Do I understand it correctly that it also builds the user provided packages? I guess that's similar to [0] but having something (semi?) official is pretty nice. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositorie...
  - siddbudd 3y ago
    vast majority of stuff in the aur has no arm version, how about COPR?

frankjr 3y ago

Just curious, is there something similar to AUR on Fedora? It's a big selling point for me.

jasoneckert 3y ago
The AUR and PKGBUILDs are pretty much just an Arch thing. But on a distro like Fedora, where the default repo is fairly complete and well-groomed (with the odd package hosted in a 3rd party repo), having something like the AUR is a moot point IMO.
user1205394 3y ago
Fedora has "Cool Other Package Repositories" or COPR. They're a place for community members to build and publish arbitrary RPM packages. Some are well curated and high quality, others less so.
- jasoneckert 3y ago
  Thanks for mentioning this! I heard of COPR a while back but never really explored it until this morning after I saw your mention. It definitely could be considered an alternative to AUR/PKGBUILD for Fedora (and it has >24,000 packages already hosted on https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/ https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/).
- frankjr 3y ago
  Do I understand it correctly that it also builds the user provided packages? I guess that's similar to [0] but having something (semi?) official is pretty nice. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositorie...
- siddbudd 3y ago
  vast majority of stuff in the aur has no arm version, how about COPR?