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Linux middle ground? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

You were merely lucky that they didn't break.

Lucky... over 5 years and with a hundred AUR packages installed at any given time? I should play the lottery.

I've noticed you haven't given me any example of AUR packages that can't be installed on Manjaro right now, btw.

it wasn't just a rise in popularity of Arch it was Manjaro's PAMAC sending too many requests DDoSing the AUR.

You do realize that was never conlusively established, right? (1) Manjaro was already using search caching when that occured so they had no way to spam AUR, (2) there's more than one distro using pamac, and (3) anybody can use "pamac" as a user agent and there's no way to tell if it's coming from an actual Manjaro install.

My money is on someone actually DDoS'ing AUR and using pamac as a convenient scapegoat.

Last but not least you're trying to use this to divert from the fact AUR packages work fine on Manjaro.