I’ll go further and just say they shouldn’t use Arch at all. The “stop being a gatekeeper, I shouldn’t need the terminal” to “everything just suddenly broke itself after an update” pipeline is so real.

I straight up just think these tools that simplify the install process or package management shouldn’t exist. The difficulty in Arch was never in the install processes. Anybody who can follow the instructions on a box of mac and cheese can eventually stumble through the process to install Arch and use pacman. The challenge was not digging your own grave post-install to the point that you need to wipe and start fresh, an experience basically every Arch user goes through at least once. The problem is that the further you abstract these tools and divest the user from hands-on experience, the less they understand about why it broke.

Basically, these tools don’t make the hard parts easier, they make the easy parts easier in a way that leaves new users less equipped to understand the hard parts.

With most AUR helper there is basically no difference between “yay -Syu package” vs clicking in the GUI. Most ppl probably skip the pkgbuild and so on anyway.

As long as its communicated clewrly, its fine imho.

inb4 another newbie that comes here to complain about linux instability is actually using this tool because someone insisted it’s really easy.