I have to say, after excluding Mageia from the main Linux distros, it was nice to read this generally positive review. I did however see that among the (very few) issues encountered there are a couple I wanted to disuss:
- the reviewer mentions failing to install Steam and only succeeding with Flatpak; there are no details about what's wrong, but given another post on the forum, it could be because 32-bit repositories aren't enabled by default, and the package manager can't find the 32-bit libraries required by Steam. I've only found the thing about the 32-bit repos now because I've been on Cauldron since Mageia 2, and only now switched to an official release: reconfiguring the package sources I saw that 32-bit repos were left disabled. I understand that 32-bit is slowly going away, and would love to get rid of all the duplicate packages eventually, but it seems rather unintuitive to me that some 64-bit packages (Steam, Wine) can't be installed because of that and (apparently) the error message isn't informative enough for an average user to figure out what to do to make them work. I was then wondering if there could be a way, with URPM, DNF, or rpmdr*, to detect cross-repo dependencies where the other repo is available but disabled
- the reviewer said rpmdr* couldn't find any updates after installation, but DNF could; I myself couldn't find any updates since the switch from Cauldron to Official, neither with rpmdrake nor with URPM, but thought there weren't any updates available yet (on pkgbuild I only saw mga7 updates in testing). Just wanted to know if I'm missing something