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.

    • gpstarman@lemmy.todayOP
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      17 days ago

      Thank you for the suggestion. But I think it will be good if it has images of the application like Discover does.

      • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 days ago

        That is something that has to be curated, which is not currently done for the Arch and AUR repos. What you are looking for doesn’t exist.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    16 days ago

    I don’t have any knowledge why you should or shouldn’t, but it seems like you could have it if it was just pulling from flatpak sources like flathub.

    • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I use discover for Flatpaks and yay for everything else. Works mostly, although for some reason Discover fails sometimes (very rarely) where flatpak update doesn’t

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      16 days ago

      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.

    • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
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      16 days 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.

  • highduc@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    it’s a shame they don’t want folks to use Discover. I’m sure it’d be great and not cause issues, and one could always go back to pacman if there ever was an issue…