> My bad if my response came as a rebuttal That is how I read it, but it's all good. Sorry for misreading your tone. > I understand that a newcomer at the beg

> My bad if my response came as a rebuttal That is how I read it, but it's all good. Sorry for misreading your tone. > I understand that a newcomer at the beginning can be confused about the relationship between pacman, pamac, AUR, yay, etc Perhaps that's the source of my confusion. So with: Red Hat-like distros the tools are usually dnf or yum, which are evolutions over rpm. Debian-like distros the tools are usually apt or apt-get (which are more or less the exact same thing), which are evolutions over dpkg. With Arch, I kind of assumed that pamac and pacman are similar things, no idea if yay is related to anything else though. And I think pamac actually can install things from the AUR. My confusion definitely stems from loading up documentation from every different piece of software I tend to install, and each one of them listing a different utility for installing their package. If these are all the same thing with different UIs, installing packages from the same repositories, then that's definitely where I got lost. And then I'd often be further annoyed to find out that the software vendor doesn't have a package for Arch, and nobody put one in the AUR yet, so I'd take the deb pkg and run it through debtap to get a PKGBUILD script. Doing which has netted me varied results.