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I just use it to get updates with apt-get or Pacman or yay. I haven't seen any other way to update non flatpack programs on the distros I use
I actually use KDE's discover to apply all the updates (flathub and yum). Mainly because I'm lazy and the update icon appears and it's quick to just click through.
I just checked and it doesn't seem to pick up all the updates that pacman or yay does. Looks like, among other things it's missing updates for samba, konsole, and plasma-addons
That is probably very distro dependent, I'm currently using bazzite on my daily driver and there the "updater" goes over absolutely everything: system images, custom dnf packages, containers, apt-get inside distrobox, flatpak... I guess also Android apps in way droid, but that I haven't gotten into yet.
I suppose that maybe not prioritizing Arch. Broadly speaking I feel like Arch isn't the target for a GUI-exclusive usage scenario.
My kids' PCs have a gnome extension that says how many updates there are and you can install them by clicking on the icon. Could be handy if you use gnome too.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1010/archlinux-updates-indicator/
I'm a recent convert, so I picked KDE since it looked familiar. Might try gnome in the future tho, since I hear a lot of good things about it.
For arch at least there's a widget you can add that does the same thing, it can show the number of available updates and works with pacman, yay, and a few other AUR package managers too.
What's the name of the widget?
I think just Arch Update Checker iirc
KDE has a GUI app called Discover that will do Flatpaks as well as other package management systems. It shows me RPM packages that I normally update with
zypperThat's interesting, normally I'd use Pacman then update flatpacks, but I'll have to check discover tomorrow before I run Pacman to see if it will do all my updates.