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Arch Linux Blocks New AUR Registrations Amid Malware Cleanup (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I wonder percentage of Arch users are actually capable of verifying that an AUR package is safe to install. I doubt that the number is very high, especially with the growing popularity of the distro

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    These days it's very small. Most people just wanna use Arch because it's cool.

    While I do wholeheartedly think it's by far the best distro, I also frequently recommend Mint for newbies if they don't enjoy learning on their own.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    In my case you can unironically blame Valve. I wanted an Arch-based distro to stay as close to SteamOS as possible but I have an nvidia GPU for the foreseeable future (unless I win the lottery or something).

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