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.
I just reinstalled arch last weekend and have both paru and yay installed. Only real difference between them is yay is Go and paru is Rust. Both work great and very similarly. I think the paru dev originally worked on yay.
I tend to choose the pacman and aur over flatpaks or snaps, something about the isolation layer never sat right with me.
Why do you have both
paruANDyayinstalled at the same time? As someone who likes Rust, I maybe should have switched to paru too. But I just can’t justify the change, because yay comes preinstalled and works just fine, and paru seems to not offer anything worthwhile the change.