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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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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have any knowledge why you should or shouldn't, but it seems like you could have it if it was just pulling from flatpak sources like flathub.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I use discover for Flatpaks and yay for everything else. Works mostly, although for some reason Discover fails sometimes (very rarely) where flatpak update doesn't