I’ve been using yay on EndeavourOS since day one. On my Arch laptop, I have paru installed and it just seems faster, snappier. So I installed paru on EOS a few days ago. It really does feel faster. It operates the same, of course. I get that. But I’m feeling really comfortable with paru. Anyone else use paru or switched from yay? What are your thoughts.
I use them both. Sometimes one of them has had small issues, then the other one has saved the day. Their differences are too small to make one clearly better than the other in my use case. But my personal feeling has been slightly on paru’s side. 
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Will there be no complications if I want to install paru additionally on my system?
I would be interested in paru. Should it run in addition to yay.
The only “thing” that immediately comes to my mind is the added consumption of disk space.
Otherwise I see no issue with having them both. Both do the same thing. Just in some extreme corner cases may need to be aware which of them is in use.
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I have yay and paru on my EOS install. No issues so far.
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I would still have 150gb free
Ok, I’d rather leave it and use my usual yay . I would be such a specialist and would certainly get something mixed up
I prefer paru and use it exclusively outside of testing.
There is no complications from a technical perspective. It is fine to have both installed and test them.
However, from an ongoing use perspective, if you use both of them for the same packages it will make your diffs much less effective. Because you will constantly be shown incorrect diffs or in some cases the whole file instead of the diff.
Once we figure out which one you prefer, it is better to stick to one of them.
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Sorry, didn’t mean it that seriously… Both of them have been OK without problems.
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That is one explanation why I will stay with yay.
No problem.
I’ll try it in a VM
Thanks for your views and support
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I’ve been using paru for a while now. never an issue.
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Nobody so far has considered the most important difference -
yay is one letter less so reduces the overall wear on your keyboard, but paru has no duplicated characters so will spread wear more uniformly amongst the keys.
A very tough call to make!
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alias 9=yay -S /paru -S
doesn’t matter the number of letters 
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On my time with Arch, I’ve almost never used yay. I’ve exclusively used paru for pretty much everything package related.
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Greetings fellow specialist
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I used to use yay exclusively, but eventually looked for alternatives and now much prefer how paru works (mostly the way it prompts you) and the fact that it tends to be snappier.
Would definitely recommend switching to paru, personally
My Arch install has had paru from the start. On EOS, I’ve been using yay exclusively since I installed it February. So an abrupt change may not be wise. When I get my new PC in the not to distant future and do a clean install of EOS, I’ll start with paru then.
I have both. Since EndeavourOS ships with yay I leave it for that time that paru wont work ( not actually happened yet ) It doesn’t hurt anything and like I pointed out before as an alias you probably wouldn’t know the difference. (I have found paru faster but that could be me)
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Both paru and yay are just wrappers, they aren’t something difficult that requires a reinstall to change at all.
Completely aware of that. I just wasn’t sure if using them interchangeably would cause issues.
It has never caused any issues for me, and I have not been careful