I installed CachyOS with Plasma DE and found it has no discover in it. When I searched on their sub lots of people say that one shouldn’t use Discover with any Arch distro as it will break the system. Can anybody clarify why?

Also if I am not supposed to use Discover, can anybody suggest an actual GUI application store? Unlike Octopi (which I consider just as a TUI with check boxes and columns)

Edit: I only use Discover for find and install new apps.

For updating, I just use paru.

  • MyNameIsRichard
    21·
    2 days ago

    There isn’t a packagekit back end for Arch based distros so it doesn’t work.

    • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
      6·
      2 days ago

      There is, but it is not great at handling conflicts, and other yes/no questions pacman might ask. This can lead to something going wrong during installation or updates.

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
      4·
      2 days ago

      Yes it does, I’ve regularly updated my system that way. It is a bit buggy at times though, I ended up uninstalling the backend.

      But it’s still useful for managing Flatpaks and stuff.