• fruitcantfly@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    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

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • kieron115@startrek.website
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        2 days ago

        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).