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.

  • Brokkr@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      2 months ago

      Eh. I haven’t had issues for a few months and I back up my files on a weekly basis and -Syu once or twice a month. Worst case scenario, I’ll just reinstall and restore from backup.

      Also, I mainly use Discover for high level stuff like browsers and IDEs.

        • TheOneCurly@feddit.onlineEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          Yeah but imagine reading about a new release of something and it appearing in your updates the same day. Shiny new software every day is addicting.

          • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            2 months ago

            On the flip side, reading about an exploited vulnerability in a package and then realizing your machine isn’t affected because Debian has an outdated package in it’s repo

          • 9WhiteTeeth@lemmy.today
            2·
            2 months ago

            You’re not wrong. That said my broke ass can’t afford cutting edge hardware so most of the time it doesn’t matter.

            When it does, I can usually compensate with either a NixOs profile install, a container of some sort (or Flatpak), or just building the emefferr from source.

        • NathanUp@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          IMO it’s overblown. If you even have an issue at all, 99.99% of the time it’s user error. And to mitigate that, you just use timeshift with BTRFS and snapshots on GRUB.

      • Ooops@feddit.org
        3·
        2 months ago

        Flatpak just working would be a nice thing. Everytime I try they fuck something new up…

        (Last time I thought about installing Steam via Flatpak on Arch to get rid of all the multilib 32bit stuff not needed for aynthing else anymore it worked for nearly 4 days. Then flatpak update randomly uninstalled its nvidia drivers because an “update” removing the old package first, then realizing it can’t find the new one make total sense of course.)

          • Ooops@feddit.org
            1·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, I heard that several times but decided to try it anyway.

            But I expected problems with Steam not with flatpak itself just removing the very same graphics driver it had just installed as a dependency…

        • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Couldn’t for the life of me get the PCSX2 Flatpak version to use GPU acceleration even with Flatseal so I try to avoid flatpaks now lol.