• rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Discover is ok… If you limit it to only managing Flatpaks.

    I’m not sure I’d ever trust a GUI to manage pacman/apt/dnf

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      2 months ago

      I’m gonna be honest, 99% of what I need to do, I do through Discover. Like, why would I bother typing a command out when the update button is right there.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      CachyOS now doesn’t even ship with Discover and if you install it there’s a banner warning you not to use it to update base packages as it can mess stuff up.

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      2 months ago

      I think Flatpaks are the future for general user installed apps. It’s way more secure and user friendly for non tech people. I’ve even had some flatpaks run significantly better, like Brave, despite conventional wisdom saying otherwise for a browser.

      • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        this sane comment seems so hard for many Linix users to understand. I use LMDE, i want to click the icon on my toolbar and have zero interest in the OS itself

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      2 months ago

      updates, sure. let discover or gnome software do 'em.

      my debian won’t break the system.

      to install, though? i’d rather see exactly what’s going on. i don’t always want to bring in every tom, dick and recommend. i use aptitude.

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      My discover casually uses 1gb of ram when i open it and after closing it stays at 500mb until i sigterm it