I don’t generally need help with my install ot any issues with using Gurado, because you have really made it smooth. I have some questions in terms of comparsion setups. apps
In Windows 11 I use winget, choc,scoop inside of Uniget UI. I also added VS code to use AI to help me.
That’s my main understanding of coding, xml, punec, json. It’s started to click in understanding.
I see within your setup, you ave programs listed or already installed. KDE Discover isnt recommended to use. You installed Octopi but I ended up trusting that to much & lost things I didn’t realize or added things.
I mostly looking for a GUI for searching, then getting the codes, adding some rules & puttng it in bash. Like Uniget, especially there batches for recovery.
IDK what the community is, or if I just have to keep trying things. I’m not looking for full command or anything. I just need a GUI that links to Github & will help more with discrepancies & if so ways to make batch to start anew, if you mess up.
Sorry I do not know anything about your M$ apps, but there are some GUI installed just for searching the apps/tools.
I prefer pacseek for searching. To install, I use pacman in the terminal.
If you need more help, just use garuda-rani as GUI for beginners.
Afaik winget, choc and scoop are all just package managers for Windows. On Garuda you use this:
pacman is the go-to package manager. Use pacseek to find package names or just google it (that’s why I usually do).
Niche packages can be obtained from AUR using yay, use garuda-update -a to trigger updates on these as well.
Lastly, you can pull source code from GIT repos and build software yourself, procedure varies by application and is usually described on the GitHub page
Obviously, Windows apps will not show up in any of these repos unless they are cross-platform. I recommend to look for native Linux apps for the same purpose. If you really must have Windows software, you can try to get it working with wine.
And finally, as far as coding in the .NET environment is concerned: Visual Studio Code is available for Linux (visual-studio-code-bin) and so is the .NET framework itself, both the runtime (dotnet-runtime) as well as the SDK (dotnet-sdk). Works like a charm and installing dependencies works just like on Windows. (I had to disable IPv6, but that might be caused by my home network rather than Garuda.)
I spend time learning more via Forum & Arch Wiki. I understand enough to install Arch via Archindtall & I was able to use the AUR verification & building packages now to get yay. I didn’t fully grasp it deeply enough to do it for every package.
Being a noob, I choose to download Garuda KDE Lite as the entirely daily driver this year as I learn. I want the cutting edge but I really enjoyed having RANI/Octopi to get my PC up & running in mostly back to working order without use Windows 11 anymore.
I honestly haven’t logged into Windows 11 for anything more than file transfers for now. Honestly I will probably have to keep it for some multiplayer & possibly some aspects of games I mod. I don’t know fully I haven’t tried modding Mass Effect yet & I mostly play Halo & COD. Got 1 of my of the Lego games running on Linux.
I got my automation media center setup mostly, I had to learn MVP because I did research & my 4070 Lovelace has better decoding there vs vlc. I have honestly learned way to much about PC, thanks to Linux.
Sorry for not responding, I got so overwhelmed in learning. Getting setup etc but thank you.
The packseek really helped. I got my Lumo Proton encrypted Ai to make me a cheat sheet of winget vs pacman compand.
I didn’t understand at 1st but pacman is getting easier o because of fish shell help, when lost as well.
Honestly I appreciate Garuda for making Arch easier because I want bleeding edge but It took me like 24HR installing arch, understand enough to create the BTFS file system plus installing only 1 AUR package myself. I knew I was in over my head if I wanted my transition from Windows 11 to Arch to go smoothly.
Here the concept of packaging is entirely different. The closest to Uniget UI you can find is pacseek as mentioned above. There is no need of the app recovery feature, because all steps of a “transaction” (install/upgrade/removal) for a package are logged in great detail. Further than that, Pacman is keeping track of every file it interacts with and mindfully prepares what must happen–whereas WinGet will just download and install wherever, not caring of dependencies, upgrades, conflicts, or consequences.
If there’s a problem, you can restore a snapshot and the packages will revert, very much unlike Windows:
Here’s an ‘official’ list instead:
There’s also the Garuda Wiki, clicking “Browse” in the top left will show more:
I use Brave AI, it’s locally saved. If they add that to Firedragon I might use it but I already have all my password saved on Brave Adroid and it is not on the cloud.
