You won't find any alternatives because Flatpak has won the war. Pretty much everyone (except Canonical) hates Snap and avoids it like the plague, and AppImages have significantly dropped in popularity amongst users due to the rise of Flatpak, and the various advantage it has over AppImages. So you're left with only Flatpak/Flathub basically.
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In that case, any one stop shop on Arch that will search the Arch repo, the AUR, and Flathub?
Thanks for the link. That sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you.
I like the integration with Timeshift and the into packed interface with ability to click on details. On the downside, the themes are limited and it's kind of hard to use for browsing apps that you might want to install.
I am using pamac-all on archlinux, which is kind of like that. It works only on arch linux afaik. It has the repos, AUR, flatpak, and snap support.
Thanks for the suggestion. After getting some weird behavior with Appimage Launcher and reading this reddit thread, I decided to install pamac-flatpak from the AUR, but plan on leaving AUR dissabled on the app. So far so good. I think it's a keeper.
I love GNOME, but Gnome Software is hot garbage. If KDE gets their gtk/adwaita tweaks in place, I might recommend Discover instead.
Also, arguably, by the most argumentative people, AppStream is also hot garbage, which is what was supposed to solve your problem regarding "too many package managers".
I personally would wish AppStream didn't suck and that it was also aware of NPM and crate packages. They've sort of been forgotten or relegated "developer tools"... even though you can pull full applications and system libraries.
How many "it's 2025 already" problems do we have to encounter this year?
KDE Discover supports Snap, Flatpak and distro packages (through PackageKit). It doesn't support AppImage, though. It also doesn't work very well outside of Plasma.