Just installed CatchyOS and the installation interface is beautiful for Installing catchy.
I was so hoping the Catchy Software Installer would have had AUR/Flatpak/Snap functionality similar to PAMAC, or at least AUR.
Does anyone know if there are plans to add AUR software install capability the software installer? It’s always really nice having a GUI for software installation 
It’s Cachy 
But anyway, Octopi is pre-installed if you want to have a gui for package installs, it also supports AUR (by enabling the Alien icon next to the search bar).
In most cases you don’t need flatpaks, as most things can be foind from AUR. And definately don’t use Snaps.
But still, you should familirise yourself with pacman/paru on the terminal, after that you don’t need a GUI to install packages 
I was on EndeavourOS for a while and ended up just going to vanilla Arch in the end, and just prepped some post installation scripts to speed up post configuration and installation of things I want. EndeavourOS is a “terminal Centric distro”, yet has a GUI for everything but package management and they tell everyone you don’t need a GUI lol.
I love Arch mainly for the vast amount of software available and being up to date, but the one thing that is sorely missing from many Arch based distro’s is a good GUI package manager (imo) with the exception of PAMAC on Manjaro, but that gets spoiled due to the fact Manjaro hold back updates which dramaticaly increases breakage risk when using packages from the AUR. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be on Manjaro now.
It’s not really about need, and more about freedom of choice and ease of access. Probably don’t need a DE, just launch apps from a terminal. Don’t need a GUI installer, can use archinstall script etc.
I always get a bit torn with flatpaks. On the one hand it’s easier for a dev to publish once and have it accessible on any distro and makes it easier. It’s less time consuming to install a flatpak published by a dev than it is to check the security and legitimacy of that app that some random bloke published on AUR which technically your ‘supposed’ to do every time there is an update for the app, but how many folks ‘really’ check.
On the other hand it opens up a can of worms when it comes to apps such as ALVR where it would be difficult to implement for flatpak, apps like VLC connecting to shares issues and messing arount with flatseal etc…and then you have the security issues of a flatpak not getting updated and potentially having libraries with vulnerabilities and so on. Sometimes the native repos are simpler.
Anyway, I got 80% of the way just making my own GUI package manager using QT creator and python, before looking into C++ and Kirigami for performance and disappearing into my own belly button from dependency hell.
I spotted CachyOS, say it had a GUI package manager and thought ‘hey, why reinvent the wheel if someone is already doing what I want’ maybe this has that magic combo of being arch, having a GUI based package manager like PAMAC, and uses the arch repos.
After installing it I can see that it is the main repo only and not aur or flatpak, so you can understand why I was asking if they had any plans on expanding it.
If not, I’ll just carry on doing my own thing.
Anyway, sorry for waffling on, but that’s the context behind my question.
May the GUI force be with you