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Screenshot of Octopi Package Manager installed on CachyOS (previously the default before being replaced by Shelly). OP has searched for microsoft-edge. No results are returned.

OP has drawn a circle around a button in the image of an alien head with an arrow pointing to it. Under the arrow is “???”.

Caption at the bottom of the image reads: “Microsoft edge and google chrome don’t show up in neither of cachyos’ software stores out of the box. On octopi you can make it show up by pressing the weird alien head icon. “Mysteriously” firefox shows up on both stores immediately without clicking any obscure buttons. This is either extremely terrible i design or a deliberate sabotage attempt against microsoft and google from loonix devs, possibly sponsored by mozilla.”

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OP is an idiot because these browsers would not be available due to restrictions required by Microsoft and Google to share their software, which is why nothing shows up when searching the installed repositories. Note that Chromium, the base for Edge and Chrome is available on the default repository.

The alien head icon searches the AUR (Arch User Repository) a place for users to add packages, often mirrored from GitHub, which would show Edge and Chrome as a user has ported it over unofficially. Because the AUR consists of unofficial packages, it is not part of the default repositories, and requires additional confirmation before installation.

Note that when installing from the AUR, it is always important to read what you are compiling as packages are not checked for malicious code. See recent news regarding compromised packages that weren’t maintained.

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    9 hours ago

    They’re absolutely serious. Here’s a post defending telemetry. The mod accuses anyone who speaks well of Linux as a “evangelists” and bans them.

    It’s not the “lol birds aren’t real” kinda jerk, it’s the “the earth is flat” kind.

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      8 hours ago

      The funny part is that despite telemetry that shows how little people interact with Copilot, it still gets shoved down our throats.

      Nobody writing anything seriously is going to use Notepad, and yet…

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        7 hours ago

        Actually no. I had shared that link somewhere 3 weeks ago in a chat and just copied it over. But whatever bro

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            1 hour ago

            Lmao fuck off dude.

            You’ve commented to about everyone in this thread like it’s your job defending a whack job comm.

            “Proving them right” just fuck right off lol

            This isn’t an argument where some moral high ground or any horse shit like that comes into play. It’s a meme about either a dishonest or plain ignorant post.

            Quit trolling people and move on.