I have the AUR turned off in pamac, I don’t need it. I assume they are tying it down in multiple ways now though, more users, and dodgy ai people would be making it increasingly problematic.

I don’t use anything from the AUR, everything I use if official, or flatpak, that solves that potential issue. No doubt it isn’t that simple for everyone though.

So I have control of my computers. Windows has been getting worse, and worse for a long time, apathy is the only reason to stick with it. Pick the right distro, and linux can be very user friendly these days.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=porteux

"Image size 500-800MB"rather small eh