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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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DISCLAIMER: Arch Linux is not a beginner friendly distribution, and this is not a recommendation or good practice.

I know how to use pacman -S. I have yet to experience a Discover related issue after months of use.

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[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

why do people get intimidated by installing an arch package?

i recently wanted to play morrowind and i use the terminal like a search engine for programs. i just typed "yay openmw" and voila it was there, checked in the aur if the package is clean and installed it by clicking enter 3 times.

and i thout "yay ^_^ that was easy! :3", got off a ship in seyda neen and killed fargoth with my bare fists as soon as i locked eyes with him.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

why do people assume I get intimidated by installing an arch package?

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Pamac is great too, and it can run all your updates at shutdown.

[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Pacman -Syu java

Windows users : 😨😨😰

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

sudo pacman -S (name), far easier than any gui in my opinion.

[–] bequirtle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

IME, KDE Discover and similar app stores are so unreliable, telling beginners to use them is akin to harmful misinformation

If you need a GUI software manager, my suggestion is to not use arch

[–] ikon106@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Octopi is a pretty great GUI software manager

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago

Hard agree. I always struggled when using Discover, as a Beginner. Don't know if I could make it work now as a more experienced user, Because I don't use it and don't have a need to. Learning how to use 'pacman -S $pkg_name' was super simple and is very fast. Sure I don't have a nice GUI, that lets me browse what apps are there to be installed, but I have a webbrowser for that.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Oh yeah, I added a disclaimer.

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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

It should be “yay [wanted program]” instead of “KDE discovery” in my opinion

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 15 points 1 day ago

Paru

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[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Installing something on arch is easy imo. The CLI is simple and well enough documented, and the package build system is easy to use. For comparison with ubuntu: pacman -S name is not harder than apt install name. And try to install something on ubuntu if it's not in the official package repos.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ubuntu: pacman -S name is not harder than apt install name.

Eh, it's a teensy bit harder, since you have to remember what -S means, rather than the easy to remember and plain English 'install'. But, yeah, not much of a difference.

And try to install something on ubuntu if it’s not in the official package repos.

1: Go to that something's website.

2: look for their download/install instructions page, scroll to Linux instructions if necessary.

3: Install instructions for Debian/Ubuntu are usually the first one listed, and typically just consist of a few commands you can copy and paste over without modifying.

It isn't particularly difficult in most cases.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

4: those commands were written for previous version of Ubuntu and now dependency tree doesn't compute, also one of the commands is to add their custom repo, and you don't have keys for it so it doesn't work anyway. You try to remove the bad repo and now your apt is all fucked. You regenerate your repo list, googled the package and your version name, random stackexchage page gave you their live repo, but it needs a newer version of a library that incompatible with 54 of something that you already have. You learn about snap, installed 43Gb of something, it exists but still doesn't really work because package maintaiers didn't actually move it to snap, it was someone else. By this point you copy-pasted so many commands into your terminal you afraid it gained sentience. You call your more computer literate friend, he starts saying something about incompatible dependancies, containers, and you don't really understand much. By the end, you decide that you didn't actually want the software.
Later you discover that your sound doesn't work anymore, and there is an error when you reboot.

Good ending: you installed Arch, installed yay and instead of remembering unmemorable -S you just do yay package_name and you're very happy with your choices.

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Did pacman get packagekit support or are we just talking about flatpaks here?

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 34 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Arch Wiki has still this warning

Warning

As explained in a GitHub comment by a Package Maintainer, "Handling system packages via packagekit is just fundamentally incompatible with our high-maintenance rolling release distro, where any update might leave the system in an unbootable or otherwise unusable state if the user does not take care reading pacman's logs or merging pacnew files before rebooting."

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So its less about lack of packagekit support in pacman and more about lack of manual intervention features in GUI software managers?

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[–] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has been working for a while, but it's not recommended

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[+] meow@discuss.tchncs.de -9 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Im sorry for all actual arch users, who are contrary to all stereotypes, not posers. If you feel the need to use Arch, and then use kde discover, or any other gui, and flatpak based installers, why are you using it in the first place?

The CLI way, and btw the ACTUAL way the devs intended to install mainstream software for YOUR distro, is legitimately far less hard than any of you make it seem like.

So, if you plan on using your distro correctly, and plan on stability, use your lovely package manager, or switch. You can get a rolling release distro everywhere else too, you can change every system file, everywhere else, you can change your fucking fast-/neofetch output, if you need to.

Just use a distro that is for your skill level.

Btw its:

Pacman, and then -S for install, -y for your repos, and -u is for updates.

So do me a favor and dont try to suffer.

Thanks for reading my mindless babbling and weird, maybe even contradictory logic, have fun :3

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux

[–] meow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

...is this a Stallman quote?... -_-

[–] meow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

I couldn't find anywhere where I referred to Linux, also, Linux is, as you said, the kernel, and there are actual Distributions that do not use any GNU software (see Alpine, Chinera, LFS, Gentoo, etc.). Assuming, that every Linux-kernel based operating system is using GNU software is wrong, and for your wonderful Copypasta a thing to consider adding :3

Meow

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Having steam installed both ways was the easiest way to be logged in to 2 steam accounts simultaneously.

But also why does it matter, the whole point of arch is that you can turn it into whatever the hell you want. If that means using discover as your main source for programs, then so be it.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Mainly due to senior coworker influence lmao. I'm planning to VM some other KDE distros soon, but Arch is good enough for now, haven't had much more than minor nuisances.

also, I know pacman -Syu. That's my second-most-used command (after yt-dlp)

[–] meow@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 hours ago

I dont know that one, is it an aur?

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yay -S "Am I a joke for you?"

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[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I'm not an expert, but I thought on Arch you are specifically not supposed to use the discover store because it can cause partial updates which can in turn cause major problems.

However, the point still stands, pacman and the AUR are easy and have nearly everything.

[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The AUR is a great resource but it's also being sold as a package repository users don't need to actively think about or understand. I honestly think malware is going to be much more common on the AUR if we aren't careful.

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