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.

  • texture@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago

    LOL. respectfully, this is a hilarious question.

    if i understand correct, base distros like arch and debian have many servers and this shouldnt be an issue. Perhaps the mirrors you are choosing are slow. Ive had terrible experiences choosing geographically close mirrors. If youre using pacman maybe trying rate mirrors or reflector and just letting the it auto select for you would help.

  • mech@feddit.org
    7·
    13 days ago

    Could this be related to the fact that the closest Manjaro mirrors to you are in Iran, and currently down due to the Iranian government’s internet block?
    And Fedora has pretty bad mirror selection in general.

    What you could try: run sudo pacman-mirrors --fasttrack && sudo pacman -Syu on Manjaro, and set fastestmirror=true in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf on Fedora.

    • anyhow2503@lemmy.world
      3·
      13 days ago

      In my experience, dnf has pretty good mirror selection by default. Setting “fastestmirror=true” replaces the more complex mirrormanager2 heuristic, which tries to select an appropriate mirror by available bandwidth, with a simple latency check that runs before transactions. In most cases this has no effect or worsens dnfs performance. They changed the description in dnf5 to better reflect the behaviour.

      Having said that, it’s worth giving a try in a case like this. I just want to make sure that people realize that there is a reason this was never enabled by default, since this is a popular configuration tweak suggested all over the internet, whose actual function very few seem to know.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    11 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.