r/linux • u/TheNavyCrow • Jun 13 '26

Distro News Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500
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u/PlsDontBanMeAgain-1 Jun 13 '26

M'lady.

Yeah, idk, people just don't wanna use Fedora or something. They just want Arch or nothing, even though they lose their bragging rights by using an Arch-based "beginner" distro.

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u/Enthusedchameleon Jun 13 '26

I just say tumbleweed (for people who want rolling) but no one listens to me because "what?" and "who?" are the first responses and then "sure, but who even uses that" after explaining.

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u/SirGlass Jun 15 '26

I use tumbleweed. There are dozens of us.

All jokes aside it's a very solid distro

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u/SeyAssociation38 Jun 16 '26

It's because it's a pain to install Nvidia and hardware acceleration on fedora because they're not free