Best GUI Package Manager: Octopi vs Pamac

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After testing yesterday and today, along with some additional reading, this is what I settled on:

  • pacman -Rns pamac-aur :smiley:
  • topseek if I want a quick way to look around or I forget the exact pacman commands (seriously, pacman is like emacs with all the flags :rofl:)
  • pacman for pacman
  • paru for AUR helper
  • Octopi (sans notifier) for GUI if I want it because
    1. it's reasonably fast
    2. you can execute the commands in a terminal
    3. it can use paru for AUR searches
    4. it has nice indicators (aliens, colors) to give you some helpful information

And as an added bonus from the thread, topgrade (after upgrade) taught me about how arch handles maintainer config diffs so that was nice. Also a nice little sanity check at the end.

Thanks for the great discussion. :bowing_man:

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