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Arch with XZ (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

It has the freshest packages, ahead of all distros

Let me introduce you to Nixpkgs. Its packages are "fresher" than Arch's by a large margin. Even on stable channels.

https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/newest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the xz package?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

As fresh as the CISA will allow it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Not gonna lie, this whole debacle made want to switch to NixOS.
Immediately rolling back to an uncompromised version was my first thought.
That and the fact that each application is isolated from each other right? Should hopefully help in cases like this