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[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WHERE IS PACMAN, our HOLY SAVIOR?

Jokes aside, paru.

[–] GigglyBobble@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality. I prefer yay.

[–] PizzaDeposit@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

Because it's written in rust ofcourse.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It also sounds much happier, yay!

[–] FUsername@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Kid you not, that was my first reason to adopt it (next to having a short name).

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because paru has a working sudoloop and config, unlike yay.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yay sometimes asks for sudo even when sudoloop is on, and paru's config is in an easy to find location.

Oh, and you can change the program paru uses for root access.

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I honestly go back and forth. Depends on which one I decide to try next time I reinstall. I actually used aura for a while, but switched back to yay for the --sudo flag. (I use opendoas)