• Reygle@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Ironically people who “btw I use Arch” have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol

      This was just this week

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        2 months ago

        precious arch user repository

        I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.

        Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.

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          2 months ago

          Maybe so. I use cachy just for the record, so I’m not piling on with linux hate. I’m just enjoying the madness of it all. :)

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            FYI, CachyOS is Arch based. It has access to the AUR. If you weren’t effected, that proves the point.

            The AUR is a repository of last resort. It’s useful, but you should be careful. That’s true even before this even. It’s a repository made by users, and is not verified.

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        2 months ago

        Nobody is freaking out who isn’t a moron.

        There are a handful of arch users who eat crayons… if the windows users in 2026 leave any I mean.

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        2 months ago

        I use arch (kinda), and has zero issues. It was a problem if you used unmaintained packages from arch, as adopting them and contaminating then was the attack vector. Using someone that’s unmaintained is always kinda questionable, so instead I’d just manually install that instead (it shouldn’t change if it isn’t maintained anyway).

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        2 months ago

        I use Arch, btw. But no, I wouldn’t blame my incompetence on my distro even if I were infected, which I wasn’t.

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        2 months ago

        lmao, but yea- lesson learned anyway 🥀 never will install random packages without properly checking it, Got too carried away by "yay -Essing everything :sob:

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        2 months ago

        Not my linux 😎

        I actually do use arch btw, however there really isnt anything to freak out over because I barely even use the aur and am just not updating from the aur for the time being. Its really not a big deal.

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        2 months ago

        Which is honestly just as hilarious, because I use Ubuntu just trigger Arch nerds.

        Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

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          Lol, I’d rather have AUR malware than Snap packages. You do you, friend. All the arch based distros are fine, only the AUR is affected, so unless someone goes out of their way to use the AUR they’re golden.

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          Doing something to spite strangers is the most pathetic thing you could possibly do.