I haven’t distro hopped much in the past few years, so I am near clueless. I know that Linux Mint has a graphical updater and I vaguely remember openSUSE having it, though I’m not so sure on that one, because as I mentioned, it’s been a while. Especially curious if any Arch-based distros have it.
It would probably be easier to name the distros that don’t have have a graphical updater tool
Even then, would it not be possible to install a graphical updater on any distro?
Likely it’s included in most major desktops.
I think nearly all popular ones that come with a graphical interface at all. There is a graphical updater by KDE called Discover that works on a lot of different distros.
not so much a specific distro. I know KDE has its own graphical updater in the “discover” app store, COSMIC DE also has its own app store. personally I always update my apps through the terminal as its just faster and easier.
What distro doesn’t? Beside a couple probably.
From my experience, most of Arch derivatives.
CachyOS comes with two. Manjaro comes with one. Not sure if Endeavour has one or not now.
NixOS
All the Debian and RHEL based ones I’ve run into have it.
So Debian, Ubuntu, PopOS!, Rhel, Fedora, CentOS for the ones I’ve seen lately
If I’m not mistake CachyOs comes with Shelly preinstalled now. While it can be a bit flaky with some esoteric aur packages it works fine for most things: pacman, flatpak, aur, even AppImage but I have not tried that.
the mostly populars probably
Arch-based
It’s not recommended, but you can use any graphical updater you want, by installing
packagekit-qt6. The reason it’s not recommended, however, is that if something goes wrong, you’ll have a harder time figuring it out without pacman’s logs; also, it won’t merge .pacnew files, increasing the chance that something goes wrong after a reboot. If you just wanna use a graphical updater for flatpak stuff, that’d be fine, but you’d still need to usepacman -Syuto update system packages.Garuda has a good one
openSUSE Tumbleweed has a graphical installer you can use to install, remove, update applications, browse, search, etc. But you still need to run a command line ‘zypper dup’ to fully update the system.
Tumbleweed has Myrlyn or Discover.
I’d forgotten about Myrlyn. I guess I never switched over to it from the older YaST software updater, which does not have the equivalent of ‘zypper dup’. But from what I read now, Myrlyn does, so that is good.
Discover does not, however. Not only does it not do the equivalent of ‘zypper dup’ it does not resolve package conflicts that can arise with external repos.
For anyone reading whose not familiar, on Tumbleweed, ‘zypper dup’ (or the Myrlyn equivalent) is what you need to run periodically to update to the latest snapshot (and being a rolling distro, new snapshots come out anywhere from every day to every few days, depending how the automated testing goes).
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Most of them offer some sort of GUI updater. Zorin, Bazzite, Cachy, off the top of my head. How intuitive are they? Not. How much user input do they require? In the case of Zorin and Cachy, quite a lot.
