So I recently installed Cachyos and I am now met with this problem.
There are kind of 2 main contenders here and I’m split between them. What do you use?
There is pacman + aur and then there is flatpak. Pacman has deep system integration and is much more lightweight but it has deep system integration and requires sudo to install. flatpak has sandboxing and easy permission management but it’s bloated and possibly less performant?
Of course if the package isn’t available on flathub then I will have to use the aur but when both are available it’s hard to decide.
Im running arch proper, nothing come pre-installed. But I originally used paru and then installed yay cuz I was troubleshooting something. Never removed it.
Fo what it’s worth, it doesn’t hurt anything to have multiple installed so you can see which you like. They shouldn’t interfere with eachother.