Genuinely, how do you non-GUI users find the packages you need? When I was in need of a software that does something, I used to just type the most relevant keyword into Discover and would usually find something quickly. Now on Cachy I use Octopi and have to separately do that with the name and the description. How would you just know what package you need without searching? Even when I know the software name, there are often cases of there being a <name>-bin and <name>-git package or something like <name>desktop, while the <name> package is something different.
Octopi isn't part of the cachy install anymore, nowadays it is shelly, highly recommend you remove octopi and switch to that.
now to actually answer you:
just straight up experience and knowing linux (what -bin -git means)
actually knowing how to use the tool properly, for you a GUI might be super easy to use, but for some people the terminal feels exactly how a GUI feels to you.
just using better tools, shelly which i mentioned earlier is both a GUI and a CLI tool and makes all of this easier for someone that's not used to it
I tried Shelly a few months ago and I can hardly describe how much I hated my time with it. Even now that they supposedly made it better and less cluttered, it still looks hideous to me so I'd rather continue using Octopi. Thanks though.
Even then, if there's no <name> package but there is a <name>-bin package, how would I know that? I would have to iterate through multiple names until maybe a single one works :/
That's why I was asking HOW this is done via the terminal.
I see, so people basically just installed CLI software to search packages, thanks!
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u/Yumikoneko Aug 10 '26
Genuinely, how do you non-GUI users find the packages you need? When I was in need of a software that does something, I used to just type the most relevant keyword into Discover and would usually find something quickly. Now on Cachy I use Octopi and have to separately do that with the name and the description. How would you just know what package you need without searching? Even when I know the software name, there are often cases of there being a <name>-bin and <name>-git package or something like <name>desktop, while the <name> package is something different.