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First Look at Shelly, a Modern Graphical Package Manager for Arch Linux (9to5linux.com)

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[–] rozodru@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

for distros like CachyOS this would make sense. But then again Cachy already uses Octopi. Now if this is EASIER to use than octopi and is put at the forefront of CachyOS I can see it being of value. Its' been a few months since I've used CachyOS so I don't know if they now have their own package manager.

Now for someone who has managed to install Arch on it's own then yeah I don't see the benefit of having a GUI Package Manager for Arch. If you've installed Arch it's safe to assume you're already very comfortable in the terminal so why slide backwards and use a GUI? unless you're completely dependent on the mouse...I don't know.

All that being said I can see the benefit of it if you just want to browse for stuff. Sometimes it's just nice to browse in a graphical interface for new and interesting things. I'm not a huge GNOME fan but I do like their GNOME Software package manager and I do use that on Debian based distros like PikaOS.