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Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
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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.
Could you elaborate wrt Fedora being a shitshow? It's my daily driver and I haven't experienced any kind of instability and (to my knowledge) I have not been compromised.
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.