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On Sat, 8 Nov 2025 22:13:54 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

> 	PCLinuxOS uses rpm via apt-rpm mediated through a version of 
Synaptic
> currently which will be replaced with DNF eventually.  From my POV
> Synaptic is a superior tool presently but hopefully DNF will mature to a
> better tool than it is now on PCLOS.

There's nothing wrong with dnf5 but I'm not fond of the Fedora KDE 
'Discover'. It seems very slow and I use it very seldom unless I'm window 
shopping. I have Synaptic on the Ubuntu box and rarely use it either. 
Usually I know what I want and install it from the command line and do the 
updates and upgrades from the command line.