To add to that, the wiki also makes it pretty clear users should be careful. It’s nice to have for packages that aren’t in the main repos, so it makes sense to have it somewhat part of the distro, but it does take manual effort to install aur packages, so in my mind, that’s the best way to do it.

Big red label at the top: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

Windows users are out there downloading random exe files…

The display in the underground trains of Munich and Nuremberg still uses windows. It’s such a pet peeve of mine, why would they pay for a license for such a simple use case?

Maybe it just wasn’t his thing.

Just writing a sentence like that makes me gag.