I use pikaur just bc i like pokemon lmao

Neither. Use yay, because it sounds happy.

Switched to yay after yaourt was abandoned and never looked back.

For me paru, but never tried Aura

Never used aura but paru is great specially if you also install bat for colored PKGBUILDs.

Makes reading them much easier. I never did before doing this.

I have decided against Aura because it splits the commands for AUR from the standard repos. With paru I can upgrade both by running just paru. In the end, that's all I mostly do with an aur helper.

@AsudoxDev no love for #yay ?

You can say "Yay!" when there are updated packages too

Try each aur helper on your machine and think for yourself.

Honestly, from a day to day standpoint, by my experience of using both, there's little practical difference between, for example, yay, and paru — it mostly just ends up coming down to subjective, nitpicky meta things about the program itself.

Up until this post, I hadn't heard of Aura, but, after briefly looking at its repo, it appears that it's effectively the same as yay and paru [1.2]; what it tries to do differently is it tries to ensure that there are translations of it (I'm guessing its output) in other languages [1.1.1]. One thing that I'm knee-jerk not super fond of is that it utilizes its own centralized metadata server [1.1.2], though I admit that I haven't thought about that a great deal, so perhaps there are some aspects that about it that I'm missing, or perhaps misunderstanding, or perhaps there's a different way to view it.