llothar, 1 year ago

One year ago I treated how long it takes to get Gimp to install on various distros in distrobox:

Results:

<span style="color:#323232;">zypper@Tumbleweed: 3 minutes, 22 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">apt@Ubuntu 22.04: 1 minute 26 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">dnf@Fedora: 1 minute 2 seconds
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">pacman@arch: 0 minutes 21 seconds
</span>

But that’s just installation speed. It simply shows that there are quite big differences depending on use case.