Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit
Google has agreed to a preliminary $135 million settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by Android users who accused it of harvesting their data without consent. The suit alleged that since November 12, 2017, Google has been illegally collecting cellular data from phones purchased through carriers, even when apps were closed or location features were disabled.
As reported by Reuters, the affected users believed Google using their data for marketing and product development meant it was guilty of "conversion." In US law, conversion occurs when one party takes the property of another with "the intent to deprive them of it" or "exert property rights over it."
Subject to approval from a judge, a settlement of $135 million was filed in a San Jose federal court earlier this week. The payout would be one of, if not the largest ever in a case of this nature, according to Glen Summers, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
Google will pay $135 million to settle illegal data collection lawsuit
Android users involved in the class action could lawsuit could receive up to $100 each.Matt Tate (Engadget)
Do you use Arch btw? Best Arch distro?
I've been using Debian (and formerly Ubuntu) for many years.
But I've been wanting to tell people that I use Arch.
I've been considering the following distros:
- Arch
- Cachy
- Manjaro
- Any others?
I'm leaning towards Arch or Cachy. This is for a mediocre laptop that I'm planning to use as a media center: Kodi, Retroarch, Steam, etc. Should I even be using Arch for this? Maybe Debian is more stable...
Sorry if this has been asked before. Thanks for any tips!
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Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
SpaceX taps former Liberal senior staffer to lobby Canadian government
SpaceX taps former Liberal senior staffer to lobby Canadian government
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Kyiv hoping to convince IMF to delay key condition for $8.1 billion loan
Kyiv is pushing to delay a new tax on self-employed entrepreneurs until after the war has ended, as well as raise the threshold at which entrepreneurs would start paying the levy, a person in the Ukrainian government familiar with the talks told the …Luca Léry Moffat (The Kyiv Independent)
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.alexharri.com
Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. official ‘treason’
Eby calls reported meeting between Alberta separatists and U.S. official ‘treason’
A reported meeting between individuals in the Alberta separatist movement and White House officials amounts to “treason,” B.C. Premier David Eby said Thursday in Ottawa.The Canadian Press (CP24)
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This is a bigger problem and it is being ignored by governments for far too long. It's not just these clowns, the Ottawa protest, all the Alberta "think tanks" and these NFP NGOs like "Canadian Federation of Taxpayers" who get tax free status in Canada but do not reveal that they are being funded by US Fascist Foundations like Atlas.
You want NFP status in Canada, you should have to be 100% transparent as to who is funding your agenda.
Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Nipah virus: Some Asia airports screen passengers after outbreak in India
Airports in Thailand and Nepal have begun screening passengers from West Bengal.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
Chinese drug shows promise against Nipah virus in study
Chinese drug shows promise against Nipah virus in study
Chinese researchers have demonstrated that an existing oral antiviral medication exhibits potent activity against the Nipah virus.CGTN
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.
“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Emmy-winning Owda points to changes in TikTok’s US ownership, remarks from Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to explain ban.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
Any ff android extension or website or whatever to rip network stream url from youtube to watch youtube content in vlc ?
It used to be possible right ? doesnt have to be a strictly youtube focused site either, being able to grab url from other sites are always a plus, only suggest apps that are on fdroid (main repo) .
Also for those who dk and might find useful you can use webtor to get a network stream url from magnet links, tho i wont suggest it as the lag and experience is abysmal and misses important functions like seeding .
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Award-winning Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda has said she has been permanently banned from TikTok, days after the social media platform was acquired by new investors in the United States.
Owda, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and contributor to Al Jazeera’s AJ+ from Gaza, shared a video on her Instagram and X accounts on Wednesday, telling her followers that her TikTok account had been banned.
Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York in September last year, telling them that he hoped the “purchase” of TikTok goes through.
“We have to fight with the weapons that apply to the battlefield in which we engage, and the most important ones are social media,” Netanyahu, who is a war crimes suspect, said at the time.
“The most important purchase that is going on right now is … TikTok,” Netanyahu added. “TikTok, number one, number one, and I hope it goes through, because it can be consequential.”
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban
Emmy-winning Owda points to changes in TikTok’s US ownership, remarks from Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to explain ban.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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in reply to technocrit • • •darcmage
in reply to technocrit • • •For a mediacenter that isn't on bleeding edge hardware, fedora or Debian would be my choice for stability. Performance will be similar regardless of distro.
I use arch on my desktop and laptop and Debian/Ubuntu on servers.
HulkSmashBurgers
in reply to technocrit • • •I used to use manjaro for four-ish years. Good times.
I now run Guix btw.
just_another_person
in reply to technocrit • • •Wait...so you're looking for a solution with zero problems because of...clout or something? I don't get it.
If you like Debian, just stay with Debian. Especially if you're not familiar with what running Arch really means in the deeper sense. Mostly that the guardrails are off, in a sense.
CachyOS puts a ton of work into adding UX helpers that makes it pretty user friendly, but it's still going to have a lot of manual intervention required, but that's a feature to some.
If you have an AMD laptop, maybe look into installing SteamOS and Kodi as a non-steam app. That could be your sweet spot.
shittydwarf
in reply to technocrit • • •nfreak
in reply to technocrit • • •I've always gravitated toward various Arch-based distros. Installed vanilla from scratch a decade ago for a college workstation, sunk a lot of time into tinkering the steam deck's SteamOS, and my desktop's been running CachyOS for just about a year now - the latter's been so smooth that I opted to wipe my Deck and install their handheld edition just because, and that's been pretty solid too.
I haven't really distro-hopped enough to say much else, but Cachy's been my go-to since I first set it up and it'd take a lot to move me off if it. All the Arch benefits with some extra bells and whistles.
determinist
in reply to technocrit • • •I use Cachyos on my 13yr old system.
Xeon e5, DDR3 ram, mix of SSD & HDD Sata. GTX 1070 ti.
it's excellent. by far the best linux experience I've had (started using Linux in the late 90s).
FirmDistribution
in reply to technocrit • • •Biblically accurate arch user
ashenone
in reply to technocrit • • •Adeptus_Obsoletus
in reply to technocrit • • •-older hardware/no need for up to date packages - Debian
-new hardware, needs up-to-date software - Arch
And that's it. Though obviously, you can also use flatpak if you truly need newer versions of software. Personally I have arch on my gaming PC + Debian on my multimedia-consumption laptop.
abbiistabbii
in reply to technocrit • • •I use plain Arch, but if you are just gonna use it as a media center, use Debian or something like it. A media center doesn't need to be up to date if you're just using it for TV and retro gaming. However, how mediocre are we talking? Are you intending to run full steam games or are you planning on streaming them from another computer?
If the latter, I think Debian or even a healthy rPi running RetroPie might be up your alley because you can install Kodi and SteamLink on that.
HexagonSun
in reply to technocrit • • •I was using Endeavour, btw. Needed almost zero tinkering and was good to go straight away.
But I run Linux on an ancient 2012 MacBook Pro, so eventually swapped over to Debian, btw.
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thingsiplay
in reply to HexagonSun • • •HexagonSun
in reply to thingsiplay • • •Endeavour worked totally fine, no issues whatsoever… or no issue where Debian does better at least.
My 2 main reasons were:
1) Ignorance over the point at which hardware components become so old and deprecated that bleeding edge updates might just break something one day. Couldn’t find a definitive answer, but I knew if Debian 13 works fine now it should still be working fine in 2 years. That Mac has outdated Intel/Nvidia graphics that have always been problematic on Linux, and many distros won’t even boot the live USB on it, so it felt like if any computer was ever going to spontaneously have a post-update issue it would probably be that one.
2) Trying the give my ageing hardware the easiest ride in its senior years. The SSD is still original and approaching 14 years of pretty heavy use, so I thought to have it surviving as long as possible an OS that might only give 0-300MB of updates in a week would be a safer bet than an OS that would have many many more gigabytes of updates over a longer period of time.
thingsiplay
in reply to HexagonSun • • •Thanks for the explanation. That reminds me an issue. I changed my default gamepad.
At least one issue with EndeavourOS I had in the past (and that's not an issue with the distribution, but with the model of having newest Kernel) was that the newest Kernel sometimes broke the driver for my gamepad, XBox One S proprietary dongle using medusalix xone driver from AUR to be specific. So I had to wait sometimes days or longer until the driver was updated in order to use the controller. This issue could be avoided when using an LTS Kernel instead, which is very easy to setup in EndeavourOS as it comes with such a GUI.
Your given arguments makes lot of sense. So it is about stability (in the sense of not changing, not about bugs). So you seek a setup and forget installation, which is understandable and maybe would have preferred doing so too in your case.
HexagonSun
in reply to thingsiplay • • •Yes, at this stage. Although before now I’ve installed a few different things over the last couple of years as a learning experience also.
It’s not my main computer, but one I replaced. This freed me up to have a computer with no music or photos or anything on it, so I could test different distros and DEs and troubleshoot stuff without having any concerns about losing anything if I made a mistake or just erased and started over.
I’d never actually used Linux before 2023, much more familiar now.
HolyLlama
in reply to HexagonSun • • •I'm interested in what you've done withe the MBPro. I have the same thing and I've been wanting to do something with it since it still seems like a solid platform.
What made you switch to Debian?
Also what do you use the computer for?
HexagonSun
in reply to HolyLlama • • •For the reasons I switched to Debian see my other reply.
I use the computer for:
- Learning and understanding Linux, in the broader sense. It’s a “spare” computer and over the past 3 years I’ve installed Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Gnome, Pop! OS, Spiral Linux, G4OS, Linux Mint, LMDE, Spiral Linux, Debian, EndeavourOS, Fedora, Garuda… and I’ve failed to install (wouldn’t boot to live USB, or wouldn’t boot after installation) many more, including Void, PikaOS, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, and probably a few others…
- Playing old games. I’ve got a steam deck, but for things like Return To Castle Wolfenstein and the Settlers II you just need a mouse and keyboard. Lutris has been awesome.
If you have a 15” Retina MBP, it’s been a huge pain in the ass, and multiple distros just stopped working after updates, often not long after installation. But also it’s been a good learning experience for the very same same reason. To work well in 2026 it needs the Nvidia graphics disabling - but the NVRAM defaults th
... show moreFor the reasons I switched to Debian see my other reply.
I use the computer for:
- Learning and understanding Linux, in the broader sense. It’s a “spare” computer and over the past 3 years I’ve installed Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Gnome, Pop! OS, Spiral Linux, G4OS, Linux Mint, LMDE, Spiral Linux, Debian, EndeavourOS, Fedora, Garuda… and I’ve failed to install (wouldn’t boot to live USB, or wouldn’t boot after installation) many more, including Void, PikaOS, MX Linux, OpenSUSE, and probably a few others…
- Playing old games. I’ve got a steam deck, but for things like Return To Castle Wolfenstein and the Settlers II you just need a mouse and keyboard. Lutris has been awesome.
If you have a 15” Retina MBP, it’s been a huge pain in the ass, and multiple distros just stopped working after updates, often not long after installation. But also it’s been a good learning experience for the very same same reason. To work well in 2026 it needs the Nvidia graphics disabling - but the NVRAM defaults that Mac to Nvidia at startup for Linux, so even that bit isn’t straightforward! If you simply blacklist Nvidia it won’t boot.
I also bought a USB WiFi adapter as the Broadcom card doesn’t work initially on most distros, and can’t support WPA3 even when it does work.
柊 つかさ
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in reply to 柊 つかさ • • •+1 for Artix
But, if you're not a masochist, EndeavourOS is a good second choice.
Overspark
in reply to technocrit • • •Arch in the front, Debian in the back(end). I run Arch on my laptop and Debian on my homeserver. I've ran Debian on laptops before and if stable is getting older hardware support can be a struggle, much better on a rolling distro like Arch. And having all the newest toys on your desktop is very very nice. While on my homeserver I mostly want stability, everything else runs in (podman) containers anyway.
Cachy is a distro I would consider, because it'll theoretically give you slightly better battery life due to the optimised compiles, although I'm not sure you'll ever really notice. Manjaro has a reputation of breaking far more often than Arch does, so that one's a no for me.
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in reply to technocrit • • •Probably not a universal answer as you are optimizing for different things.
I will say that EndeavourOS is essentially vanilla Arch once installed. If you really love configuring everything yourself, vanilla Arch is what you are looking for. If you like Arch but just want to fire up a system with sensible defaults, EndeavourOS adds a lot of value without corrupting the purity of the base system.
So, my vote is for EndeavourOS.
Cachy adds the most additional functionality but also changes the base system the most. If you have a T2 MacBook, this is the best option for sure.
I would avoid Manjaro.
Garuda has fans. A bit much for me.
Jesus_666
in reply to LeFantome • • •When you take away the garish KDE theme the gaming spin ships with it's pretty much just an opinionated ready-to-go gaming Arch with a bunch of convenience tools. If that's what you want then Garuda is pretty neat.
pirati_kudos
in reply to technocrit • • •deadcade
in reply to technocrit • • •Use whatever you're comfortable with, and what you know works.
On that note, Manjaro and CachyOS don't work. You should avoid them. They both make changes that harm reliability, and both frequently make avoidable mistakes (especially Manjaro). If you need something like those two, EndeavourOS is a better option, or just base Arch Linux.
Arch Linux itself is a good distro, but made for a specific target audience. If you want to tinker with your system and learn along the way, it may be a good option for you. If you want to "set and forget" your media center PC, a stable-release distro like Debian or Rocky might be better options for you.
hubobes
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in reply to technocrit • • •SteamDeck, so yes.
On desktop, SBCs, servers, etc Debian.
mikael
in reply to technocrit • • •Universal Blue - Powered by the future, delivered today
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in reply to technocrit • • •GitHub - arindas/manjarno: Reasons for which I don't use Manjaro anymore
GitHubbuckykat [none/use name]
in reply to technocrit • • •rav3n
in reply to buckykat [none/use name] • • •I've been using it for 5+ years with no issues specific to Manjaro.
Arch on the other hand has intervention notices on its front page. Manjaro holds updates back a bit so they don't have to deal with the bleeding edge of Arch.
buckykat [none/use name]
in reply to rav3n • • •texture
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in reply to technocrit • • •EndeavourOS. It's like Arch, but a bit easier with a few automation and gui stuff builtin. It's still heavy on terminal usage and it comes light out of the box. I switched from Manjaro to EndeavourOS, because Manjaro gave me some problems (especially their package manager and because of the AUR too, and I didn't like the maintainers, no further comment). It's my daily driver for years now. I use it for everything, daily usage, little programming, gaming on Steam and especially RetroArch too. I'm a huge RetroArch fan.
So if you plan to use base Archlinux or Manjaro, then I can recommend to use EndeavourOS a lot.
Cachy OS is probably a good choice too, because their focus on performance optimizations. But they do also have a bit more, let's say bloat, out of the box and their branding is a bit strong it seems. It's a bit farther away from base Archlinux than EndeavourOS is.
Dessalines
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Nibodhika
in reply to technocrit • • •If you're going to use Arch you should use Arch. One of the biggest advantages for Arch is the AUR which can cause many issues on Arch based distros that are not Arch.
That being said, for a media center, if you're not used to, I wouldn't go with Arch, Debian is a much better choice since you're already used to it and should be good for that use case.
Admetus
in reply to technocrit • • •Fives
in reply to technocrit • • •I’ve had great success with Garuda Linux. I’m running the KDE “Mokka” version.
It’s quite opinionated, so be aware of that, but it’s been very reliable on my HP laptop (it even has hibernation support!) and the built-in apps are top notch.
Just be aware that Arch-based distros tend to shun things like Flatpaks in favor of their own repositories and the Arch User Repository (AUR), and there aren’t any friendly point and click app stores like KDE Discover or GNOME Software. You will have to install apps using the command line or tools like Octopi, which is great if you know exactly what you’re looking for, but terrible for app discovery.
Since I mostly use Flatpaks, I installed Bazaar. You can install Discover, but it only works for Flatpak.
I used to run Manjaro, but after it left two of my computers in an unbootable state after an upgrade a few years ago, I moved on.
Veraxis
in reply to technocrit • • •iByteABit
in reply to technocrit • • •I used to experiment around with various distros some years past until I got into Arch.
Haven't distro hopped once since, I've completely erased Windows from my life and I'm gaming exactly as I would if I was on Windows.
I never have trouble finding a package since almost everything exists either in the official repositories or in the AUR, and I get the latest versions with all the new features and fixes.
Rarely some things do break because of the rolling releases, but it's almost always just a matter of a single google search to fix.
For me it's worth it for having all the latest versions of everything.
My opinion would be different for a server or a work laptop where stability is much more important.
For servers I would pick Debian for sure, for work laptop I'd consider Fedora probably
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in reply to technocrit • • •i use cachyos, runs swimmingly for me. I'm not sure arch is good for your usecase tho.
Mediacenter/homeserver? I'd personally choose something like fedora, but debian sounds fine too
youmaynotknow
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in reply to CheesyFox • • •IEatDaFeesh
in reply to technocrit • • •I just found out that what I pictured was EndeavourOS was ElementaryOS. I was so confused with the Endeavor recommendations because i thought it was based on Ubuntu 💀
Ahhhh more I gotta at least check out EndeavourOS now x_X
HexagonSun
in reply to IEatDaFeesh • • •Your username is spinning me out. We always ask our cat if he’d like to “Eat da feesh” when we feed him any fish tins or treats, and we spell it just like that when we message each other to say he’s been fed too haha.
…Milo, is that you? 🐈⬛
IEatDaFeesh
in reply to HexagonSun • • •Drunk & Root
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in reply to Drunk & Root • • •Crozekiel
in reply to technocrit • • •Stay away from Manjaro.
I've heard great things about Endeavor and Cachy, but personally use Garuda. Highly recommend it.
Spice Hoarder
in reply to Crozekiel • • •Crozekiel
in reply to Spice Hoarder • • •Same. Tried manjaro twice, fully broken after a few months every time. Thought Linux was just too much work and I wasn't smart enough. Been on Garuda for over 3 years without issue.
I feel like manjaro keeps people from adopting Linux. I have friends that will argue about my Linux experience because they tried manjaro and think that's how all Linux is.
mbp
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in reply to technocrit • • •aight let me tell you MY arch experience. itll be a long one.
i first installed arch with the install script and later manually, i ran this setup for quite some time, and as time goes, small erros cascade into bigger ones. it got to the point where i was reconfiguring system configs every week to fix something that broke from an update. the thing that ultimately caused the most trouble was converting my existing ext4 system to btrfs. this caused all sorts of issue primarily with gaming performance (i had to disable cpu boosting in order to not have constant lag spikes for example). this old system was a mess held together with duct tape and hope, it broke with EVERY update, and not at small scales. at some point i had to reinstall grub everytime i changed something in my boot order. Ultimately i decided 2 days ago it was time for a reinstall. i tried installing it normally, i followed the official install instructions and got greeted by a grub shell. i fucked something up during the install, so i decided fuck it, i will use archinstall script again. then it took me legit 6 h
... show moreaight let me tell you MY arch experience. itll be a long one.
i first installed arch with the install script and later manually, i ran this setup for quite some time, and as time goes, small erros cascade into bigger ones. it got to the point where i was reconfiguring system configs every week to fix something that broke from an update. the thing that ultimately caused the most trouble was converting my existing ext4 system to btrfs. this caused all sorts of issue primarily with gaming performance (i had to disable cpu boosting in order to not have constant lag spikes for example). this old system was a mess held together with duct tape and hope, it broke with EVERY update, and not at small scales. at some point i had to reinstall grub everytime i changed something in my boot order. Ultimately i decided 2 days ago it was time for a reinstall. i tried installing it normally, i followed the official install instructions and got greeted by a grub shell. i fucked something up during the install, so i decided fuck it, i will use archinstall script again. then it took me legit 6 hours to get my system running in a way i could use it, tgen the next day an additional 3 to get everything set up so i can game with proper OBS recording and all.
now i have a perfectly functioning Arch setup. and a lot more performance (even tho the setup should be the same, like i really dont know what was wrong with my old setup)
arch WILL be a hassle at some point. in turn you get bleeding edge packages, no bloat, complete customisation, a great learning opportunity, the AUR, and (if properly set up) great performance.
i like arch. i wouldnt use anything else.
glitching
in reply to technocrit • • •can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they're handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I'm some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw's good name and whatnot...
the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?
spacemanspiffy
in reply to glitching • • •-binversions of the packages you want. Those are precompiled and should install only marginally slower than a regular pacman package.glitching
in reply to spacemanspiffy • • •spacemanspiffy
in reply to glitching • • •Not quite as that its user-created and submitted.
But yeah lots of packages have a -bin counterpart that will install a lot quicker than compiling it for yourself.
Jaaaardvark
in reply to glitching • • •Chaotic-AUR - automated binary repo 👨🏻💻
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in reply to Jaaaardvark • • •ozymandias117
in reply to glitching • • •Back in 2015, I was using Arch on a single core Intel Atom 1.5GHz processor with 1GiB of RAM
Most packages came from binary packages, and the AUR was the exception when I needed something specific outside of the main repos
inzen
in reply to technocrit • • •rav3n
in reply to technocrit • • •Manjaro is the best, but you'll have to see it for yourself.
Don't trust the "wisdom of the crowd." It does not exist.
Communist
in reply to rav3n • • •GitHub - arindas/manjarno: Reasons for which I don't use Manjaro anymore
GitHubrav3n
in reply to Communist • • •Yeah, none of that matters.
On the other hand, bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot…
Nobody mentions this because it's not 'cool' and doesn't make you fit in with losers/strangers on the internet.
Tampered Linux Mint ISO Linked on Official Website
Hot for SecurityCommunist
in reply to rav3n • • •All of it matters, hard disagree, even if none of them are individually that bad it shows an insane degree of incompetence
the linux mint thing happened one time and was resolved, it shows no history of being incompetent, that's why it isn't mentioned, it's hardly worth mention, one security breach in the entire history of the project is not a big deal.
furthermore i personally don't think mint is a good distro either so, whatever.
Fizz
in reply to Communist • • •Communist
in reply to Fizz • • •Most of it speaks to their lack of competency. Issues like this are less frequent on arch and the whole point of this distro is that It's supposed to be an easier arch.
it is in fact harder arch.
Fizz
in reply to Communist • • •Its a small team and those are mistakes. We can find hundreds of examples of major companies with IT teams in the 100s making those same mistakes. The solution was figured out by the team and fixed. The original version of that GH page that most people remember was much longer but its been significantly reduced as most of the claims were disputed and the author had to reel back their claims or remove them outright. Now whats left is just a few pedantic complaints.
With arch they make those mistakes less but they shift a lot more configuration onto the user and when those mistakes get made they dont need to take any blame because it was the user who made the mistake. Arch has pushed updates that have broken bootloaders how many times? I'd consider that to be catastrophic failure on any distro except arch where i think its fine as the user should be able to fix their bootloader pretty easily.
Communist
in reply to Fizz • • •Fizz
in reply to Communist • • •So you basically hold them to a higher standard than google, apple, Microsoft, cisco, Amazon. Because theyve all had outages cause by certs expiring.
Its a common issue and its not a huge deal. The package manager cert was a big outage but their wiki website cert is the most minor shit ever.
vaionko
in reply to technocrit • • •Random Dent
in reply to vaionko • • •_stranger_
in reply to technocrit • • •exu
in reply to technocrit • • •Arch if you want to do the install completely by yourself and/or have some setup that can't be replicated by the usual installers.
EndeavourOS/Cachy if you want a simple GUI installer for Arch, but you don't get bragging rights.
Don't use Manjaro
Marasenna
in reply to technocrit • • •Not currently but I have in the past.
Just install vanilla Arch. If you don't want to install it manually,
archinstallworks fine. But you really should install it manually, following the Installation Guide on the Arch Wiki, at least once.Don't use Manjaro.
meow
in reply to technocrit • • •rmrf
in reply to technocrit • • •Kazel
in reply to technocrit • • •Vanilla arch
In no case manjaro
BuckWylde
in reply to technocrit • • •kyub
in reply to technocrit • • •Endeavour or Cachy are the current recommendations for "easy Arch". If you're able to install and maintain vanilla Arch, I'd recommend Arch though. Cut the middleman.
subdee
in reply to technocrit • • •I see there is a lot of concern(hate?) over Manjaro. I have used it on three machines continuously for the last 6 years without any major issues. Some updates would break some packages but going to the forum gave me answers.
I know about the issues they have had but I don't agree with the negativity.