FLATHUB VS pacman (package manager)

There are a lot of third-party Linux apps built with GTK4/Libadwaita. If you just to to https://flathub.org and click on random apps a lot of them will use GTK. - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago

I would recommend taking a look at Flatpak. Source: 5 months ago

Flathub flatpak format apps/games for linux desktop, does not require any specific linux distribution just that flatpak is present on the system. Source: 7 months ago

Which X clients are these? You didn't name any so let's just look at some of the popular and recent flathub apps: https://flathub.org/ I see a lot of games, chat apps, text editors, photo apps, office apps. These all will work fine in XWayland and XQuartz. But also, it's relatively easy to get them running on Wayland natively. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

If you're worried about the potential of breaking things, I'd pick the Fedora Kinoite distro. Up to date gaming support, stable and extremely difficult to break. Install apps from Flathub using the built-in Discover software store and go nuts. Source: 7 months ago

However, that "pacman -S" command has lots of switches (see section 1.1.1 ==> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman ). Source: 5 months ago

Automatic installation of packages during building utilizes pacman and aurman with the supported "package sources" being:. Source: 9 months ago

* Package management and DNF syntax usage are big topics. Follow the Arch Wiki example for the "pacman" package management tool ==> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman. Source: 10 months ago

Should be possible as the Arch distro SteamOS is built on includes pacman. Source: 10 months ago

All of this is explained in the wiki page. Source: 11 months ago