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Cachyos is a gaming linux distro made in Germany๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช (cachyos.org)
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[โ€“] theprogman@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How do you manage the updates? I do them once every two weeks, but even though I work in tech I have no desire to manually check each repo/kernel/update info. Last month or two there was an alert saying something among the lines of "we're working on removing malware from the latest updates" and that made me wary. Still a better experience than running Windows, but I miss the flatpacks from other distros.

[โ€“] antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

I do the updates when I feel like it, roughly once every couple days. I donโ€™t check anything at all to be honest, because I use CachyOS on my private computer and I honestly do not care so much about getting malware. I know, probably not the answer you expected, I just learned to live with the risk. Besides that, I try to install flatpacks or via npm. pacman is just used for the things where no other option exists. AUR is a huge mess and will always be full of malware, so donโ€™t ever use Arch on any important devices. This is why on my servers I have Debian 13. CachyOS has own repositories, but as far as I know they just mirror AUR and add/modify some build flags

[โ€“] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What is the problem that prevents you from using as many flatpaks as you wish?

[โ€“] theprogman@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Welp, I guess I should've looked for it a little more, it does seem like you can you flatpaks with Arch/CachyOS! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ