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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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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I thought it was only usable for flatpaks