you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I do both. If I know exactly what I want to install, I'll install it from the terminal because it's often more direct. If I go "I need an app that does thing, what's available?"

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    pacman can list all packages and their description, then you just grep for key words

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    apt-search and dnf-search both exist. I have used both. I prefer a GUI for that because they'll provide things like screenshots, no CLI tool does, neither to TUI tools like Aptitude.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I wasn't sure, the gui is nicer in some ways but defs less direct and given that you said "terminal is more direct" I thought you were using the gui because you hadn't made some simple helper scripts for searching the database quickly

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment