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Manjaro or Pop!_OS for (Nvidia) gaming on Steam?
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Every single large enough distro (and any organization) has at some point forgot to renew a certificate. How were you impacted by the expiration?
The AUR was not originally designed to whitstand any meaningful traffic. What you call "DDOS" was simply the AUR being used by an actually popular distro, where enabling the AUR is a simple UI toggle, whose developers never imagined that the AUR doesn't have any traffic mitigation methods.
So Manjaro went out of its way to look for contributors to sponsor an AUR CDN and several caching layers, improving things for everybody.
The second "DDOS" happened after Manjaro implemented all of the above so it couldn't have come from Manjaro machines. All the "proof" is that whoever hit the AUR used a "pamac" user agent... which anybody can do.
Manjaro's extra testing and vetting of Arch "stable" packages has avoided several problems so far.
Yes well the difference is that I've used both and can explain their pros and cons and why one suits me better. I don't just read a page called "archno" and then parrot it.