• teft@piefed.social
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    So, microsoft, how’s that vibe coding coming along?

    Why do i ask? Oh, no reason.

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    I wonder if that’s why my work PC has been having all kinds of stuttering/lag issues. I’m regularly seeing a second or two between clicking/typing at various points throughout the day.

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    I dual boot Linux and Windows and it’s really painful whenever I have to go into Windows. I try to avoid it at all costs.

    It’s so jarring to go into Windows.

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    Yeah. My work machine now regularly black screens for up to 30 seconds then comes back. The Adobe Acrobat reader we are forced to use is now so bloated that it freezes the whole machine for up to a minute. What an OS.

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      Lately whenever someone complains their C partition is full, it’s always unmistakably Adobe’s fault. Their shitty way of updating piles up crap in the Windows Installer folder. Uninstalling Adobe and cleaning up its garbage, no joke, frees up anywhere from 20 to 40 gigabytes of storage. Insane.

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      Ironically people who “btw I use Arch” have been FREAKING OUT because their precious arch user repository got massively infected with infostealer malware, lol

      This was just this week

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        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.

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          Maybe so. I use cachy just for the record, so I’m not piling on with linux hate. I’m just enjoying the madness of it all. :)

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        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).

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        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.

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          The packages on the AUR are all user created. It’s not really comparable to the Microsoft Store.

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            Is the Microsoft Store not full of apps not created by Microsoft?

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                And the AUR is not currently accepting registrations, so some degree of vetting is clearly happening in both cases. I don’t know how stringent for either.

                This wasn’t supposed to be a perfect one to one comparison, just an interesting sidenote lol

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          There is a reason why the arch community had such a bad reputation when it came to newcomers, they were gate keeping good technical knowledge of the system. It had the side effect that most people became royal dicks on the forums and stopped being helpful, but it did have what I would consider the intended effect of people being wary of everything they did on their system.

          I find the easy arch distros to be fairly interesting since my recommendation has always been that anyone who wants to daily drive an arch distro should install arch through command line at least once and read about the packages they use. I personally run endeavor os, but I started by doing the leg work, which led me to the conclusion that I prefer flatpaks over aur if it is available because they are far more easier to maintain good security practices on.

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            I think that’s a silly thing to say given that the arch wiki is the most comprehensive source of up to date technical Linux knowledge available to everybody. If you mean support for people on the distro itself, it does explicitly market itself to people who are already knowledgeable and willing to be their own support, so idk what you’d expect

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          CachyOS is completely 100% unaffected UNLESS people chose to install applications from the AUR.

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        Which is honestly just as hilarious, because I use Ubuntu just trigger Arch nerds.

        Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.

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          Doing something to spite strangers is the most pathetic thing you could possibly do.

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          Lol, I’d rather have AUR malware than Snap packages. You do you, friend. All the arch based distros are fine, only the AUR is affected, so unless someone goes out of their way to use the AUR they’re golden.

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            I partially chose Linux Mint to skip the whole snap nonsense. I seriously don’t get how it’s been so accepted in various distros.

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              For the casual user, they Just Work™. The famous ones like Stean, at least (I tried it sometime ago, it’s better than the flatpak version nowadays). If you never change your cursor, never check out your partitions, etc. snap’s problems aren’t as visible

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    … and Microsoft Windows continues its unbroken winning streak as the best advocate for migrating to Linux …

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      I manage 40 and we had 2 issues that got resolved by uninstalling a different update.

      Uninstalling it inexplicably nuked that machine’s print drivers and I had to reinstall those lol

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        MS universal print.

        How did you uninstall a different update? They’re cumulative.

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        According to Microsoft, users who have installed the KB5095051 update might encounter a strange Recycle Bin bug that replaces the names of deleted files with internal Recycle Bin filenames in specific situations. When permanently deleting a single file from the Recycle Bin, the confirmation dialog displays a cryptic internal filename, such as $Rxxxxx.ext, instead of the original filename, such as realfilename.txt.

        Ahh yes, Microsoft lying about how bad Microsoft are again. \s