Hey Óscar, On 07/10/2026 14:19, Óscar García Amor wrote:
Obviously, this system won't save the day if you need to make any manual changes, but it's useful for day-to-day use for users who don't want to deal with pacman. That said, it doesn't work with AUR, only with binary repositories. If you have an unofficial personal repository in pacman.conf, it will work without any problems.
I guess this simplifies things for your friends and family, and it should work most of the times, but over time it will eventually lead to their systems being in a partial upgrade with e.g., unmerged .pacnew files.
I guess you can let us know here again in the future if this saved you time or if at the end gave you some extra work ;)
Personally, for friends and family that do not know how to do anything on the terminal, I have installed Fedora (with automatic updates set) in the past and, lately, KDE Linux.
By the way, this is also not exactly new. In KDE Plasma, at least, you can install packagekit-qt6 and manage the Arch Linux updates graphically using Discover, together with flatpak and fwupd updates.
Best, Iyán -- Iyán Méndez Veiga GPG Key: 204C 461F BA8C 81D1 0327 E647 422E 3694 311E 5AC1
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