[chousuke]

YUM/DNF (and RPM itself) are very different beasts from what they used to be some time in the past. For some reason, updating repository metadata is still slow compared to APT, but installing packages is speedy enough. However, in terms of features it's just... better.

Two things that I especially appreciate: I can install things without knowing the package names, eg. "dnf install /usr/bin/foot 'perl(XML::Tiny)' 'pkgconfig(bwayland-client)' libaudit.so.1" will just work. These are especially useful when packaging stuff yourself because you can use these indirect references in your dependency list so it doesn't matter which package actually provides them.

I can also "sync" my system to a set of repositories with distro-sync, downgrading and/or replacing packages as necessary. I've had a few times with Ubuntu that I wished APT had this.

I also like that it does not have debconf. I don't have much love for debconf.