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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100

Thought I'd create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people's pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.

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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Prob niche but ive had my pacman aur wrapper paru kinda broke for many months and ive let it pass so much that its probably much harder to fix now lol. I used to cat one file that cache'd available aur packages so i could pipe it into a fzf command but its no longer making that cache file.