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IME, KDE Discover and similar app stores are so unreliable, telling beginners to use them is akin to harmful misinformation
If you need a GUI software manager, my suggestion is to not use arch
Octopi is a pretty great GUI software manager
Hard agree. I always struggled when using Discover, as a Beginner. Don't know if I could make it work now as a more experienced user, Because I don't use it and don't have a need to. Learning how to use 'pacman -S $pkg_name' was super simple and is very fast. Sure I don't have a nice GUI, that lets me browse what apps are there to be installed, but I have a webbrowser for that.
Arch is actually great for beginners, way better than usual alternatives like Ubuntu for example. If you need a GUI software manager, Arch or Arch derivatives are still better than a lot of the rest.
Besides, a lot of people like fancy GUIs, nothing wrong with that. You're right that graphic app stores aren't amazing, but that's shouldn't be the norm then. I will still do everything in CLI, but I will vehemently defend our less technically advanced bretheren's right to click their mouse on the colourful buttons
To be clear I'm not against GUI software managers, just had bad experiences with KDE Discover... and I don't trust anyone who recommends Arch for beginners...
If you never want to see a terminal just use Mint or whatever
I'm talking from experience both in education and sysadmin duties. In my life I helped hundreds of people switch to Linux, for work, for home, for everything in between, and was that helpful person that answers all their questions. I have the statistics, however informal, I know what I'm talking about. There are whole categories of problems that people encounter with Ubuntu and it's derivatives that just categorically don't exist in Arch. And you can trust whatever the fuck you want.
Oh yeah, I added a disclaimer.