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For me is it’s awesome, out of the box, syntax highlighting, auto-suggestions/auto-complete and the up arrow history function (that includes substrings).

As others have mentioned, you’re not forced to. But Debian is indeed way more conservative in that regard if you use their stable release. Particularly I think you won’t have issues with either regarding hardware compatibility or performance. But for what reason would you want Arch or Cachy OS if you don’t mind me asking?

Just so you know, if you install Distrobox you can run pretty much any app from any distro (except drivers), regardless if you choose Debian or Arch. So if I were you, I’d choose Debian if you’re worried about stability, and choose Arch/CachyOS if you want to keep up to date features and drivers. Then use Flatpak and Distrobox to download pretty much any app you want.

I particularly use CachyOS and have zero issues with it with my Asus Vivobook with a Ryzen 5825U released on 2023.

For instance, the MIT license being popular is pretty hard evidence that FOSS doesn’t necessarily mean anti-corporate, and for many users GitHub still more or less does what it says on the tin.

I’m pretty sure that MIT license is that popular out of ignorance, instead of an informed decision to allow corporate to steal and make money out of their code.

Not recommended. Even if you’re not writing data to the drive, when you read it the physical components keep working, which can lead to more damage until you lose everything. I would recommend you to back up, right now, your most important data to any other drive you have, then unplug this damaged one, buy a new drive, and then backup your stuff on it following a ‘emergency’ order (the most important and non replaceable files first, and then the less important stuff).

I believe the core reason is that, when MS bought it, and while they make it worse day by day, the number of projects in Github was already huge and it just keeps growing. That being said, it is still the main platform to find FOSS projects, and to have your project be found.

A lot of people are migrating though. The good thing about the FOSS community and philosophy is that they don’t really need to rely on shitty companies like Microsoft. They can (and many actually do) just move on, at least regarding their own personal projects.

What gives it in is the ID 5, Reallocated_Sector_Ct. In your log, there were found 120 reallocated sectors, which indicates pretty much literally a physical damage in the hard drive. The drive detects this damaged sectors and move the data to a different one.

I believe Linux will experience a slow, steady growth because the technical alternatives for most Windows features and softwares already exist, making it pretty much a matter of time until people realize it. But the friction, like IT retraining, vendor certified vendor support from Adobe and other shit, and general user habits, are still too high.

Edit: Although, on a second thought, maybe not even that slow given Microsoft incompetence at managing Windows.

Valve’s Proton support bringing gaming to Linux effectively, Windows 10 reaching its EoL deeming millions of perfectly functional PCs as e-waste by requiring TPM 2.0 and a short list of CPUs, and Microsoft’s aggressive and incessant push of invasive telemetry and AI features (like that shit Recall stuff), are certainly driving a lot of users toward Linux. If Microsoft keep making decisions like this, I’m not sure how long they will be able retain their user base.

I didn’t.

Saying that Debian and Fedora don’t need an AUR because vendors provide packages, implying these distros are pratically immune to third-party malware is totally false. Fedora has COPR, openSUSE has OBS, and Ubuntu/Debian rely heavily on PPAs and random deb downloads from websites. See xz-utils: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Most FOSS developers do NOT have the time or infrastructure to package for every distro. They provide source code on GitHub. The AUR exists to translate that source (or a vendor’s deb) into a native Arch package. Furthermore, downloading a random deb from a vendor’s obscure website and installing it with dpkg (which runs pre-install scripts as root) is arguably less safe than a PKGBUILD that downloads the exact same binary from the vendor’s official mirror, unpacks it, and lets you read exactly what it does before you run it.

Your conception of PPAs is riddled of misconceptions. Absolutely anyone can create a PPA. Canonical does not verify the identity of the uploader beyond email confirmation. Launchpad is flooded with unofficial, community-maintained PPAs that are no more “official” than an AUR maintainer.

Also, Ubuntu does NOT proactively audit the source code or binaries inside PPAs. They takes a PPA down after it has been reported and confirmed malicious, exactly the same as the Arch maintainers do with the AUR.

A PKGBUILD is a plain-text shell script. You can read the exact source URL, the compilation flags, and the install commands. A PPA provides a pre-compiled binary file. You have pretty much zero idea what is inside that binary. Blindly giving sudo access to a binary PPA is objectively more dangerous than auditing a 20-line bash script that compiles source code before running.

Hahahahaha they also come in Debian .deb and Fedora .rpm packages. That’s why I never got this problem with my hardware on Ubuntu or Debian.

That is exactly why the AUR exists. To repackage that vendor’s .deb into something Arch can safely manage. This makes Arch support to 3rd party apps almost unbeatable.

And you’re right: PPAs are not the same… in this regard they’re actually worse. AUR is at least in plain text and the documentation is clear: always check the PKGBUILD. When you add PPAs you’re blindly trusting a 3rd party repository and updating them with sudo.

You can’t burn the whole thing down just because, in your own words, “people are stupid”. They either read the documentation and follow the security policies, or they stick with Arch and Flathub. Or, they can simply choose a different distro. It’s that simple.

The thing is, I agree that AUR could have some sort of protection, such as a rate-limiting or a reputation system. But even as is, AUR is still an excellent feature that should definitely be maintained. And people, specially using Linux, definitely should educate themselves instead of exclusively rely on strangers for all their digital security.

Edited for extra clarification.

There are some software that I only have because of AUR. For example, Brother printer drivers.

AUR is a great option to have. It doesn’t mean people should use it for everything, when there’s a perfectly capable version of the same software downloadable from Arch, Flathub or even through Distrobox.

Having options is a good thing, people just need to take care.

In fact, downloading something from AUR without checking it is hardly more dangerous than adding PPAs in Ubuntu.

The entire philosophy of Arch is to put user in control. The PKGBUILD format is plain-text and reviewable. The documented best practice has always been to read the PKGBUILD and the .install files before building.

I’m not saying they shouldn’t look into measures to make it less prone to such attacks, but “take it down” is a very stupid take. If people can’t deal with the existence of AUR, there’s plenty of different distros to choose already.

In my experience, the main cons are overall support from some 3rd party applications. I can’t as easily access some software as I can on Windows, such as a digital certificate software that’s required for my job, for example, which requires me to have Windows on a VM just to upload some files on a specific system. In this case, Wine/Bottles unfortunately does not work.

And, for gaming, sometimes modding is not as simple as it might be on Windows, requiring some extra tinkering to make things run on a same prefix, which is generally not very intuitive.

But the gap is definitely way narrower nowadays. Running games, without mods, is super easy with Steam or Heroic. And software support is also huge nowadays! Even Nvidia driver support is getting much better - I usually have zero issues running (stock) games on CachyOS with Proton.

My Windows usage nowadays is very minimal. And even then, I don’t really support Microsoft anymore… I don’t pay for a Win11 license, I don’t use Windows Office, I don’t use Xbox app, and I definitely don’t use OneDrive. And I also cleaned lots of telemetry and other bullshit with WinUtil.

And regarding the pros: Full control over my device (never again locked by the system to access a path even with admin rights, for example) is the big one.

No telemetry, no ads, no one trying to force me to use software I don’t want, and ZERO dark patterns. No more having intrusive notifications asking me if I want to use software X when I said I didn’t numerous times, while also offering me just “maybe later” as an option. No software being intrusively installed on my system without my consent. No setting options being silently re-enabled without my consent after an update.

And, as a nice extra, Linux distro’s are generally way cleaner and lighter than Windows, with much better performance all around, since they’re not filled with clutter and a bunch of shady processes running in background.

I despise using Windows nowadays. I don’t want to use a product or a service that does not respect me as a consumer.

I have it on my desktop just as a remote server for gaming with Moonlight/Sunshine, and as a VM on my laptop exclusively to digitally sign some documents as I mentioned earlier. Other than that, everything else I do, I do with Linux. I don’t miss Windows at all, and that has been the case for some years now.

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