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Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Arch and AUR are not really the same. To be fair AUR is the fanfiction version that fits inside the story. But you have to purposely work to use it. So it's not Arch that was compromised.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    IsIs it really all that difficult to use these popular coding and browsing tools such as Heroic Launcher, Visual Studio Code and Brave within Arch Linuxes like CachyOS?

    Last time I touched an Archy Linux, I don't recall it being difficult for some of the things on that list. And it still comes from a central store of apps reminiscent of the Microsoft Store for example...

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