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Oct 25, 2026
Chris TitusHOST
Pacman, I rate probably below DNF and APT, as I don't particularly care for much of the syntax, you know, dash dash no confirm, and other just nonsensical stuff that I just don't particularly care for.
Chris TitusHOST
However, you don't install Arch for Pacman, you install it for the AUR, or the Arch User Repository.
Chris TitusHOST
I thought this would be pretty cool, and it is cool.
Chris TitusHOST
Don't get me wrong here.
Chris TitusHOST
It's pretty darn awesome.
Chris TitusHOST
But the wrappers choosing, you know, you have YoArch, you have all these other different wrappers.
Chris TitusHOST
And I had to do some research, and I've settled on Ye for installing the AURs.
Chris TitusHOST
If there's a package in AUR or Arch User Repository, I would... use Ye.
Chris TitusHOST
But it's very specific to those games.
Chris TitusHOST
overall this made it so much easier because i could just get on lutris and say hey it's using you know uh e-sync or it would be using this version of vulcan it was very easy to get that and install it where before you'd go through this build process and go to a GitHub page, clone it, and then do all that BS, and having the AUR either automatically build it if it needs a build, or having the package already just sitting there and you just hit install.
Chris TitusHOST
Arch makes that very seamless, which my hat's off to them, and I've had probably the best gaming experience thus yet on Linux using Arch.
Chris TitusHOST
I did not expect that at all.
Chris TitusHOST
A lot of people like want to use a GUI tool that comes baked into their distro.
Chris TitusHOST
All of them kind of suck because what ends up happening is if you're installing stuff through the AUR in an Arch Linux spin, well, a lot of times it uses like Python dependencies and other things that were installed for specific packages.
Chris TitusHOST
And then those never get updated, but then the base underlying dependencies get updated and then you have a whole mess on your hands.
Chris TitusHOST
TopGrade kind of solves all of that.
Chris TitusHOST
You can use a Debian package manager like apps.
Chris TitusHOST
You can use, uh, arch Pac-Man.
Chris TitusHOST
You could use the AUR on this sucker.
Chris TitusHOST
You can do anything.
Chris TitusHOST
I'm already up to date.
Chris TitusHOST
I have one out-of-date package, Synergy, but that's actually newer than the one in the AUR because they don't update the AUR.
Chris TitusHOST
I digress.
Chris TitusHOST
Most people would see this and go, good, I'm done.
Chris TitusHOST
But I want to talk about top grade specifically because a lot of people will go install stuff from source, the AUR, many other things, whether you're on OpenSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, whatever it is.
Chris TitusHOST
A lot of people will install Flatpaks, AppImages.
Chris TitusHOST
What about those? What about your NeoVim? If you use NeoVim, you might have all these different plugins.
Chris TitusHOST
What is it? It is a tiling window manager, Hyperland, on Arch Linux.
Chris TitusHOST
Even though it says Omachi and it runs its own repos in AUR, those are direct mirrors from Arch Linux, one-to-one from everything I've looked at.
Chris TitusHOST
So pretty much if it's on Arch, it's on Omachi, and it's one and the same.
Chris TitusHOST
But Omachi takes its own repos and hosts everything.
Network ChuckHOST
What so many options packages from the official arch and Omachi Omachi repositories.
Network ChuckHOST
The AUR is the arch user repository.
Network ChuckHOST
Be careful there.
Network ChuckHOST
Anybody can just throw things up there hitting package.
Craig RowlandGUEST
You know how much I love Arch.
RyanHOST
So to catch everybody up in case you're like, what are they talking about? Ian is referring to the fact that AOR recently got hit with a bunch of, I guess, malware within the AUR that was out there.
RyanHOST
And so they've been working and at one point even had to basically stop any future updates in AUR until they got things under control because it was just under a constant attack.
RyanHOST
So that's them basically saying that this is them discussing that news.
RyanHOST
They go on to say, a normal distro maintainer pulls from upstream, adapts the code to the distro's current library and folder structure.
RyanHOST
Arch simply provides warnings and potential solutions.
RyanHOST
They do not have any policy regarding package intercompatibility.
RyanHOST
Arch users develop have long presented AUR as a primary benefit of running Arch latest packages and dis any downstream distro that holds off on package updates.