I'm running Armbian on a 4 GB Rock64, downloaded and installed yesterday. I've been using Debian/Raspbian/Armbian for about 10 years and I've really come to rely on Synaptic for searching and being able to make download scripts. Not every day but about once a week especially if I'm setting up something (like this Rock64).
This Synaptic's access to the package database seems incredibly slow. A single search may take 20 minutes. After installing something it reloads the list and sh
Especially hard to read if you don't use C++. It took a little Googliing to figure out that jump in C++ is like jmp in assembly or goto in C or Basic. I thought it was the actual name of a function. I never found it, grepping and searching in editors. pkgTagFile seems to be a type, like maybe a pointer to a stuct. My guess is that it spends 90% of its time there just because it's called thousands of times.
Anyway the problem went away, Synaptic works fine now, perfectly usable.