I’m running Arch daily since 2015, was on Debian before. I install and try a lot of stuff. Never had anything bad happened to me once. Worst case scenario the shit I just installed didn’t work so I have to debug it.
Not endorsing this apparently dangerous lifestyle, but also a little bit maybe
Yeah same. Aur has been significantly less virus prone than the windows norm (inb4 wut abut winget >;ppp) of “Googling some shit you want and clicking the first website to roll the dice on predatory ads or malware or maybe the thing you wanted”
…not to mention if you have btrfs you can just rollback a month or two and call it a day.
I’m running Arch daily since 2015, was on Debian before. I install and try a lot of stuff. Never had anything bad happened to me once. Worst case scenario the shit I just installed didn’t work so I have to debug it.
Not endorsing this apparently dangerous lifestyle, but also a little bit maybe
Yeah same. Aur has been significantly less virus prone than the windows norm (inb4 wut abut winget >;ppp) of “Googling some shit you want and clicking the first website to roll the dice on predatory ads or malware or maybe the thing you wanted”
…not to mention if you have btrfs you can just rollback a month or two and call it a day.
This is more important after the recent news of malware on AUR
I get why we need to do this but most people are not programmers either and probably don’t understand wtf they’re looking at.
While I understand some of what um looking at, when in just trying to get the updates over with its super annoying to review each aur pkgbuild.
Not updating AUR packages saved me from the last incedent 🙃I had 6 or sth packages installed who were in the list