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Why I shouldn't use Discover on Arch (Plasma) ? (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I've never personally used a GUI package manager. I just install an aur helper like yay and use the terminal, using the Arch repo websites to help look for packages when I need to.

I'm not sure why it might be bad to use discover. It's in the extra repo, not even from the aur. I would say you should backup, timeshift, and try it. You can always do a reinstall if you break something.

I did find this article which is not too old. https://www.debugpoint.com/arch-linux-gui-package-managers/

Out of this above list, I would try Bauh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

using the Arch repo websites to help look for packages when I need to.

I mostly use GUI package managers to discover the existence of new apps.

I would say you should backup, timeshift, and try it. You can always do a reinstall if you break something.

Thankfully I use BTRFS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This discussion has some answers.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/discover-could-not-find-or-read-package-endeavouros/4659

The parts that stand out to me are partial upgrades and hidden errors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But, it won't be a problem if I use Discover just for find and install new apps. right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If the install has errors, you won’t see them.

Browsing is fine. Once you find something you like, it’s better to use pacman or yay and watch the output.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thank You

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

No. Lookup partial upgrades. Just a bad idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fyi theres a way to cross post, but im fuzzy on exactly how. Hopefully someone can chime in with details.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I actually did crosspost but for some reason, its not showing a crossposts section under the post.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's why i mentioned it. There's been a couple federation synching issues recently, maybe the crosspost function is caught up in it?