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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pacman + yay is superior. pacman for most packages, and yay to use the AUR, where you can get pretty much anything that can be downloaded online, but as a package so that you can more easily manage what shit you've downloaded before but no longer need.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Until the package adding and removing entropy lits your whole system on fire and you have to untangle dependencies, purge keyring, flush your system and reinstall

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Luckily that hasn't happened to me yet, though I'd say pacman is still far better than something like apt, even if you have to untangle dependencies.