Sometimes you are just right. No mind reading required.

Sometimes they come back. I’ve re-learned to use apt-get dist-upgrade for Proxmox patching.

Well, that’s interesting. I guess linux really is going more mainstream, if that’s the more common user experience. The users I know are mostly professionals that enjoy tinkering under the hood. Thanks for your perspective, stranger.

Ok, I can see that in SteamOS, users that don’t directly interact with a package manager. That seems likely.

I would say that ‘most users’ of just about any linux distro know all about command line package managers.
So, my ‘most users’ and your ‘most users’ don’t seem to be the same people.

Yes, exactly. The company I work for has lots of yum scripting. I don’t hate dnf, its just not the interface I’ve used at work.

I don’t know these linux people that don’t use package managers. So I asked.

Who are ‘most users’?

I guess I should learn about that last bit. Someday …

That makes perfect sense until I contrast it with the fact that I’ve never had any sort of issue with yum’s performance. I do this crap for a living. I might carry out the same install or patching on several servers. As long as it executes in a consistent and reliable way, performance is really a secondary consideration.

Well the distros in question are pretty standard. RHEL, CENT, Oracle, Rocky. Ok. At least they let me keep my interface.

None that I know of. I’m pretty sure they are both installed. I think dnf has some sort of TUI. I was just never interested.

They mentioned YUM just long enough to shit on it. I’ve never had a reason to switch to DNF. Fukit. YUM works.

Despite OP insisting otherwise, I’m gonna assume you are correct. I use a lot of flavors of linux for a lot of things, but I don’t have it on a laptop (other than as an alt boot in case of a crash), so it seems logical to me that’s why this joke went over my head.