One of the few things that differentiates the major distros is the package manager. I've been running void on my laptop for the last 3 years and love it. XBPS is super fast and easy to use. It has never left me with a broken system either. That said, I've got the itch to switch.
I am looking at rolling / up to date distros. I'm inclined to use CLI when available.
I've been considering Opensuse, but last time I used zypper it was painfully slow. Has it gotten any better?
I was thinking of trying Alpine, how is APK?
Not interested in *butu, but apt seemed okay.
What's your favorite and how does it behave?
Interesting fact! If you've had an arch machine for a while, it's possible you didn't know that parallel download support is available, because it's a config option hidden in
pacman conf.pacnew(I know I didn't realize it until months after, lol).https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman#Enabling_parallel_downloads