I use Bazzite btw

precious arch user repository

I think you vastly overestimate the importance of AUR. A lot of Arch users had to say something about the incident and many of them didn‘t even use it. It‘s definitely nothing essential.

Also Arch users still don‘t give a fuck about Windows. This whole AUR debacle has little to do with what OP was actually getting at.

Nobody is freaking out who isn't a moron.

There are a handful of arch users who eat crayons... if the windows users in 2026 leave any I mean.

This is why I love flatpak and sandboxing in general

I use arch (kinda), and has zero issues. It was a problem if you used unmaintained packages from arch, as adopting them and contaminating then was the attack vector. Using someone that's unmaintained is always kinda questionable, so instead I'd just manually install that instead (it shouldn't change if it isn't maintained anyway).

For those of us Arch btw users:

https://gist.github.com/Kidev/85756c3dcad3623ca5604a8135bafd14

I had a mild panic then realised I've never used AUR so I'm fine

Mostly because they were doing the linux equivalent to downloading .exe's from limewire.

I use Arch, btw. But no, I wouldn't blame my incompetence on my distro even if I were infected, which I wasn't.

DAE BOF SIDES

I don't use arch btw (I'm a Fedora stan)

The Windows equivalent of this would basically be the discovery that a bunch of apps on the Microsoft Store were infected with malware.

This really sucks for people that migrated to Linux without becoming Linux experts, and chose a friendly distro based on Arch that came with the AUR, like the often-recommended CachyOS.

lmao, but yea- lesson learned anyway 🥀 never will install random packages without properly checking it, Got too carried away by "yay -Essing everything :sob:

Not my linux 😎

I actually do use arch btw, however there really isnt anything to freak out over because I barely even use the aur and am just not updating from the aur for the time being. Its really not a big deal.