I have the same opinion of Pamac, however, I have it installed on my laptop running Arch Plasma. I find it is a great tool for actually finding the name of a given package. I use the CLI to do all my installs and updating.
As for Sanps and Flatpaks, I only use Flatpaks for two programs, Skype and Spotify. From personal experience, I found that the Flatpak is updated faster than the AUR. I refuse to use Snaps at all. I went to Arch derivatives to get away from Ubuntu.
Because I have a hard time remembering things, I have all of the update commands aliased in my bashrc to something I can remember.
alias updatedl="sudo pacman -Syyuw"
alias updaterun="sudo pacman -Syyu"
alias connect="nmtui"
alias yayup="yay -Syyu"
alias flatup="flatpak update"
Thank you for the information. Someday I will switch completely to using yay. The aliases that I use were developed over time. So they have become routine. I may simplify my update routine in the future, but it is working right now, and it is second nature.
These are two things I always forget to do when I used Arch on my primary system! I would submit that this post is helpful not only to ex-Manjaro users, but any user coming to a more barebones Arch system for the first time.
I was using Manjaro from 0.8.n a longtime The hand holding increased with time, not a bad thing, but I thought this thread could help, the little things are annoying.
e.g. I installed timeshift, set it to daily, backed up and forgot about it, when I looked - no backups!
I have the problem with Timeshift that each snapshot is the same size as the first one created. Actually it should be that all further ones are only incremental. I haven’t changed anything in the factory settings, except for location on a different disk and schedule change to daily & weekly.
Thank you, but I don’t mean that I’m still using M… along, but my only experience with KDE is based on the version of M… and that was not so lucky … sometime I’ll try KDE on EOS again, just wait until the big changes of the next versions are done. Thank you very much for the salvation offer!
That’s interesting, I’ve always just done 1 On-Demand after install, and then set-up the schedule. It has worked as intended thus far. But come to think of it I haven’t even checked how much storage timeshift is using.
I cannot ever succeed this way. Each time i type the third letter i throw my hands up in the air & cheer loudly, hence never get to press Enter. Tis so frustrating.
I was looking for a alternative Spotify client that wasn’t that bloated and ncspot fits the bill and it is terminal based. Took me about 3 day’s to get used to it and remember the keybindings.
