I’m very tired of the rhetoric that Arch is only meant for tinkerers. If all you do is have plasma steam and a web browser it’s no more or less likely to break than any other distro. You could go your entire life without ever looking at the terminal.
And while yes this malware is a problem it is specifically in the aur, the arch user repository an unofficial repository not officially supported, just don’t use it. Unless you need a weird piece of software generally related to some type of specific hobby you’re unlikely to ever even want to look at it anyway.
I do agree with this in theory. I just don’t know many ‘normal people’ that are going to only ever require those three things.
(Totally with you on the AUR bit)
Really? If anything I have the opposite problem all the normal people I’m aware of probably don’t even need steam just the web browser and plasma. Pretty much everything is in the web browser these days I mean they might want the dedicated discord client but that’s ultimately just a web browser in a box and will also work perfectly no AUR required
Yeah, there’s a ton of people that recommend Cachy when it is really meant for tinkerers IMHO
I’m very tired of the rhetoric that Arch is only meant for tinkerers. If all you do is have plasma steam and a web browser it’s no more or less likely to break than any other distro. You could go your entire life without ever looking at the terminal.
And while yes this malware is a problem it is specifically in the aur, the arch user repository an unofficial repository not officially supported, just don’t use it. Unless you need a weird piece of software generally related to some type of specific hobby you’re unlikely to ever even want to look at it anyway.
I do agree with this in theory. I just don’t know many ‘normal people’ that are going to only ever require those three things. (Totally with you on the AUR bit)
Really? If anything I have the opposite problem all the normal people I’m aware of probably don’t even need steam just the web browser and plasma. Pretty much everything is in the web browser these days I mean they might want the dedicated discord client but that’s ultimately just a web browser in a box and will also work perfectly no AUR required
I suppose so. I run Cachy now but that’s only after 3 years of switching distros several times and getting more confident with how Linux works.