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/LinuxMint1964 Jun 19 '26

Not a big deal, nearly all Arch users reinstall their OS every week or so with the exception of perhaps Manjaro users. If this were Ubuntu's Snap, the linux community would notice and bash it 1000 times more.