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Why I shouldn't use Discover on Arch (Plasma) ? (self.archlinux)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by gpstarman to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use pamac-all, it supports all the things (AUR, flatpak, snap, etc.), but I personally don't enable snaps.

[–] gpstarman 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you for the suggestion. But I think it will be good if it has images of the application like Discover does.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

That is something that has to be curated, which is not currently done for the Arch and AUR repos. What you are looking for doesn't exist.