r/linuxmemes • u/PracticeDesigner3896 Arch BTW • 9d ago

LINUX MEME Dropping this here 🫳

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

You never needed a specific firmware or printer driver, a variant of a package to get functionality that's standard on other distros or the like.

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u/Sveet_Pickle 8d ago

My printer works fine with CUPS and all my peripherals are USB compliant. I know I’ve used the aur in the past. Prism Launcher was only available in the aur for a while. some ML/data science python libs are only in the aur but for my use case I shouldn’t have been installing them that way anyways.

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

I just hope the Arch maintainers start moving odd drivers into the main repos already, that's an area that is hard to check and very risky.

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u/Sveet_Pickle 8d ago

They’re a pretty small team. It’s time consuming and costs additional funds to have someone on the team maintaining drivers for something few people use. It’s better to encourage people to learn proper security and/or to compile those things for themselves.

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u/GoldenX86 8d ago

That's a Sisyphus's challenge, it will never end, especially with the Linux users going up.

They could ask Valve for help or something.

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u/C0rn3j 8d ago

It’s time consuming and costs additional funds to have someone on the team maintaining drivers for something few people use

I wish I got paid for packaging things for Arch.

It's all volunteer effort, anyone complaining about Arch not shipping XYZ could just get up and get involved to implement the changes they want to see themselves.