I used Arch for 10 years before recently switching to Cachy. I used pamac with Arch for most of that time.
I’m very confused by most of what you’ve said. The Pamac package (called pamac-aur) is in the CachyOS repos and is a Cachy specific build but is currently broken. (Which is why @Mitch has given instructions on how to use the one from AUR instead.)
❯ pacman -Ss pamac-aur
cachyos/libpamac-aur 11.7.0-9 [installed: 11.7.0-2]
Pamac package manager library based on libalpm
cachyos/pamac-aur 11.7.2-4 [installed: 11.7.2-3]
A Gtk frontend, Package Manager based on libalpm with AUR and Appstream support
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I don’t understand why you would think it’s not compatible with Arch. Manjaro is Arch based. And as I said above, works just fine with Arch as I have been using for many years (as have countless other Arch users). It was first submitted to AUR in 2013 and has been maintained by the maintainer (Zeph) just fine since.
Just because a dog/CachyOS is an animal/Arch and a cat/Manjaro is an animal/Arch does not make cat and dog compatible.
Yes, pamac can do pacman, aur, flatpac, etc. but it also has a long and severe history of problems, like hammering the AUR on searching, now that language thing, etc. and, from what I read, is discouraged to use outside of Manjaro, leading to package problems down the line. If this is still the case I do not know but I personally would not recommend or use pamac for the different reasons.
I was referring to the CachyOS devs @deex, as pamac-aur and libpamac-aur are in the official CachyOS repositories.
And of course there have been problems with pamac, just as there have been problems with octopi and other package managers. But for the vast majority of the time pamac has worked splendidly, and its user interface is magnificent and easy to use. Whereas many, including myself, find the user interface of octopi, the default CachyOS package manager, to be incredibly convoluted, unattractive, and difficult to use. And over the years I’ve heard numerous complaints from those with dyslexia and other visual difficulties that octopi is simply unusable and not an option.
But that’s one of the beauties of Linux - choice. That’s why we have so many DEs - some like Gnome, some like KDE, some like XFCE, and some like other niche systems. There’s nothing inherently wrong with any of them, it’s just a matter of personal preference. And whether you use Linux, Windows, or Mac, no matter what software you choose there will always be occasional problems.
Sorry but, with respect, that is a non-sensical comparison. Aside from software being nothing like the animal kingdom, even the analogy falls over because if you want to use that analogy then it’s more like Arch, Manjaro and CachyOS are slightly different breeds of cats (of which I am familiar since I hold both qualifications in IT and Vet Nursing lol), with Arch being the original breed and Manjaro and Cachy being breeds based on the original (e.g. like how the Birman breed of cat is based on Siamese and Persians) - they are still almost identical ‘under the hood’. Manjaro and CachyOS are Arch based. They would not exist without Arch. Dogs and cats exist completely independently of each other and a dog’s existence does not rely on a cat’s existence because they are fundamentally different species.
But I don’t want to get into an argument about this because I would hope that we can both agree that arguing over semantics and analogies is not a nice way to spend the day.
Yep, been enjoying for many years, happy to have contributed to the solution for the fix (as I usually do with any and all opensource software I use) and will keep enjoying it since it fills a niche for helping running my system with my disabilities.
