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| 6 Oct 2024 |
 flyingdutchman2233 | In reply to @element.reaffirm:matrix.org
Hello, community. I'm using Linux for daily use, not delving too deep into the system. Does anyone have experience with EndeavourOS, Fedora and OpenSUSE? Which distro is preferable for regular Linux users? If I just want to install linux, once configured and fully use the OS, in the future maybe games to run, I do not play yet. I use KDE + Wayland ☯️ ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬 ♚ Sailornaut 異 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🌍: Honesty, I should start with Kubuntu LTS in your case. | 06:52:46 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | It just 'works' and you don't need to tweak a lot like on Arch based distro's. If you really want to use tiling window managers and want extra control of your system, you could always install a distro like Endeavour or Arch. But if you just want to run KDE Plasma and are relatively new. I recommend Kubuntu | 06:55:30 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | People will hate on it because of Canonical snaps but actually snaps have their benefits and are quite fast nowadays | 06:56:05 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | And if you don't read pkgbuilds from AUR snaps might be a bit more safe also (besides the fact they are isolated via apparmor). | 06:56:55 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | But yeah really depends on your hardware and usecase. I am more in the Debian / Ubuntu or Arch / Endeavouros camp than rpm (Redhat Fedora). | 06:58:24 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | If you are using Nvidia GPU than RPM based distros like Fedora always give me a headache. Something I don't have on Endeavouros or Ubuntu for example | 07:01:46 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | Even on Debian stable nvidia works better via non free repository than on fedora from my experience | 07:02:20 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | But nothing against Fedora. It ships with some cool stuff by default. Just not my cup of thea | 07:03:12 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | * If you are using Nvidia GPU then RPM based distros like Fedora always give me a headache. Something I don't have on Endeavouros or Ubuntu for example | 07:03:42 |
 ☯️ ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬 ♚ Sailornaut 異 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🌍 | Ubuntu did snaps to far in my eyes. But thays an opinion | 07:29:10 |
| ☯️ ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬 ♚ Sailornaut 異 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🌍 | Is ok you get extra stuf what isnt in repo.... But each package a snap is bit over | 07:29:58 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | I think it is better than PPAs | 08:55:05 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | But yeah AUR is superior in the end. But also a little bit less safe for newcomers | 08:55:56 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | If you don't read the pkg builds there is a chance you will install possible malicious software. Snaps are signed and distributed via Canonical. I even use snaps on Endeavouros :o | 08:58:53 |
| flyingdutchman2233 | But I understand what you meant to say | 09:00:24 |
| ☯️ ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬 ♚ Sailornaut 異 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🌍 | ppa's or snaps is same basics. you dont know who made it | 11:19:22 |
 mxgi | Hi everybody, I have installed EndeavourOS on my old MacBook Air (2011) with xfce desktop and I’m very impressed and hppy: all the programs that I need are much faster and everything works perfectly! Previously I used other Linux distributions, mainly Debian, and I still have to learn how eos, Arch, Pac-Man and AUR work. After reading the last messages, I have two questions: - I installed a few AUR packages utilising ’yay’ but now I’m not sure how to list them: how can I know which AUR packages I have installed?
- by inspecting the pkg builds, how can I ensure that an AUR package is ‘safe’ or suspect it contains malicious software?
| 12:34:09 |
 jef | In reply to @mxgi:freiburg.social
Hi everybody, I have installed EndeavourOS on my old MacBook Air (2011) with xfce desktop and I’m very impressed and hppy: all the programs that I need are much faster and everything works perfectly! Previously I used other Linux distributions, mainly Debian, and I still have to learn how eos, Arch, Pac-Man and AUR work. After reading the last messages, I have two questions: - I installed a few AUR packages utilising ’yay’ but now I’m not sure how to list them: how can I know which AUR packages I have installed?
- by inspecting the pkg builds, how can I ensure that an AUR package is ‘safe’ or suspect it contains malicious software?
pkgbuilds are in essence just bash scripts so if you know bash, you can see pretty easily whether they're doing anything fishy
a well-written (and legit) pkgbuild shouldn't do anything that looks strange, if you're extra paranoid you can always check the sha sums of the sources that are being downloaded | 12:39:34 |
| mxgi | In reply to @jef:rustybever.be
pkgbuilds are in essence just bash scripts so if you know bash, you can see pretty easily whether they're doing anything fishy
a well-written (and legit) pkgbuild shouldn't do anything that looks strange, if you're extra paranoid you can always check the sha sums of the sources that are being downloaded Thanks! 😊 | 12:49:56 |
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| ☯️ ℜ𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔬 ♚ Sailornaut 異 🇧🇪 🇪🇺 🌍 | Trizen yiu can edit pkgbuild itself... Yay --editmenu but has flaws doesnt do depency right if yiu change that | 21:35:30 |
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