MonkeMischief comments on Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Whelp...I've REALLY loved EndeavourOS for my laptop, especially because I felt I could mess around with stuff, but maybe this is my call to use something like Fedora or a OpenSUSE variant (I love Tumbleweed dearly).

Nothing against the incredible Arch, but I'm deffos that user who does

> yay 
> "Build files exist. Do clean build? N"  
> "View changes? N".

ENTER.

I want to learn, but also I'm a bit of a danger to myself if this malware threat is this broad.

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

Have you heard about the recent fuckups of fedora? fedora is a shitshow.

If you just yolo with yay anyway, you will get compromised on any system you use, ni matter the OS or distro, my dude.

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 4 months ago*

Have you heard about the recent fuckups of fedora? fedora is a shitshow.

Oh really? I guess I haven't. 😬

Yeah it was late here so I think I was poorly mushing two separate thoughts together there. I meant I was thinking of moving to a distro that isn't as bleeding-edge for the laptop I'm not updating every single day...But also I should find something that still has a nice large software variety so I stay off AUR.

OpenSUSE has the "Open Build System" which I've used for like one package. So that's pretty neat.

This is really tough because I have two gamers in the family using Nvidia cards I want to help move off of Windows, but I don't want them running into having to roll back as often as I have or fiddle too much, but I feel like Mint is a little too far behind.

So I was considering the KDE spin of Fedora for them...But yeah, the answer isn't so easy anymore lol.