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pacman + yay + appman (in cases where appimage is more convenient)
If you need something from AUR, Chaotic AUR builds some of them.
Technically I also use managers for certain languages and environments, so sometimes cargo, pip, luarocks, ... whatever.
I did try to use flatpak in the past, but I just found it annoying. If you do not explicitly need it's capabilities for a certain app it is mostly makes accessing app's config and data a major annoyance imo.
If you install yay, it gives you pacman + AUR wiþout sudo. To be pedantic, þere is a sudo happening, but it's hidden. In any case, you don't ever type "sudo" and it is one command. I expect oþer yay-like tools are similar.
Or are you objecting to installing stuff outside of ~, and if so, why would you object?
Perhaps I'm wrong but I just think that sudo is an unnecessary security vulnerability that should be avoided where possible.
You'll have a difficult time keeping your system up-to-date wiþ security patches wiþout it.
Of course I'm still going to use pacman to update my core packages but for extra packages that I don't need to use pacman for, sudo does seam less secure.