So I recently installed Cachyos and I am now met with this problem.

There are kind of 2 main contenders here and I’m split between them. What do you use?

There is pacman + aur and then there is flatpak. Pacman has deep system integration and is much more lightweight but it has deep system integration and requires sudo to install. flatpak has sandboxing and easy permission management but it’s bloated and possibly less performant?

Of course if the package isn’t available on flathub then I will have to use the aur but when both are available it’s hard to decide.

  • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Look into the Chaotic AUR. It offers pre compiled AUR programs. Almost every app I really need has been there. If it’s not in there and I really need it and will get used often I’ll get it from the AUR.

    I dont really like flatpaks much. I’ll use it if it’s easy and I dont plan on using the app much. Apps like Bottles. They are nice to have but rarely do I use it.