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Welp, I made a similar thread yesterday regarding Manjaro but I decided to swap to Fedora as my daily driver for stability purposes. Unfortunately since fedora is yet another non Debian distro I need help finding a Syncterm replacement.

I'm my previous thread it was pointed out to me that syncterm has a docker option which I can run on Fedora, but I'd prefer running an app locally if possible.

I tried the Syncterm snap package which boots inside bash, but it doesn't have ANSI support (which is the entire point of using Syncterm) since I assume it's simply piggy backing off of bash- hence the 1.5* review on the snap store.

Looking for options.. if anyone can help a Linux noob I'm all ears. I tried Alien to convert deb to rpm and fell on my face.

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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Why do people use the aur on manjaro? I thought they specifically say that the aur is not supported on manjaro.

[–] mex@sopuli.xyz 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why use an Arch-based distro if you can't use the AUR? It's like one of the most, if not the most defining feature of them

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 11 months ago

Because you get package updates before most other distros.

[–] KRAW@linux.community 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

AUR is also not supported on Arch, so support has nothing to do with it.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 11 months ago

On Arch the AUR is made specifically for arch users so while not supported by the distro Arch is supported by the aur.

[–] bulwark@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

That's what I was wondering. Seems like a recipe for disaster having your main system be several versions behind them shoehorning bleeding dependencies for AUR programs into the mix.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

They have an option in their own pamac GUI to enable the AUR. IMO if they want to send the message that it will cause issues and it shouldn't be used, they shouldn't make it so easy to enable. Or if they do want to make it that easy, display a clear disclaimer about the issues you can expect to run into if you try it.