HaraldvonBlauzahn

What's also worth mentioning is that Guix packages are also an excellent way to distribute new FLOSS software for Linux/POSIX - your packages do not need to be part of the Guix distribution.

You can just put your package definition on your Codeberg or github page and users can pull that. Pretty much like Ubuntu PPAs or flatpaks but since everything is defined from source, people can inspect what they get, which fosters trust.

And it works for any distro that works with Guix, without modification, because the Guix dependencies give a 100% reproducible base.

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Well, it has only 31,000 packages for now, and quite limited npm support ;-)

But more serious, the user interface is still being polished. The documentation is top notch though, including the parts how to define own packages!

AUR is not Arch maintainer vetted repo tho.

Oh, of course. I didn't repeat that, because this is is clearly stated in the docs and should be well known now.

Here is an explanation for that - I think it is valid for Debian, too:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Guix

I solved that one by buying an AMD radeon card. Zero fuss since then.

Without the AUR Arch becomes a third world country distro because the official repos have only the basics.

Arch has 17,000 packages and is one of the largest distros. If you want more, you can use Debian, (or maybe NixOS, but you won't get the same quality).

And what do you need so many packages for?

I’m using Tumbleweed, the one issue of rolling release (things occasionally breaking) [...]

My 5 cents is the risk of breaking is overblown in many cases. Of course, you don't want important servers to break. But I am running Debian since 15 years and in fact, for me it broke more often than Arch, for example because of GNOME issues, or NVidia issues. And well that's a biased sample because I use Debian for a larger proportion of time. I think for desktop users, it matters more to have a backup system.

This doesn’t take away responsibility away from the Arch team.

The Arch team is not responsible for this code.

And to add, demanding to do more work from volunteers which already do a lot of work for free is rude. If you want something done - do it yourself.

I don’t understand any code so does that mean I shouldn’t use any software? that is 99% of the world.

Not from AUR.

OpenSuSE also comes in two flavours, Leap (a stable release) and Tumbleweed (which is rolling release and sligthly less bleeding edge than Arch).

You can even run Opensuse stable, and in a VM on top Tumbleweed to have a system where you can safely try out new stuff.

Maybe maintenance of packages shouldn’t just be handed over to newly created accounts. This is a design flaw on AUR’s part.

That is the whole purpose of AUR, users can create and share packages with minimum fuss. That does not mean that it is a good idea to run the code of some random guy on your computer.

But open source has always worked like that, by code sharing and collaboration - on tapes, on FTP servers, on Sourceforge or github and today on codeberg. The way the Arch User Repository (this is AUR spelled out) makes this easy is great!

Just don't run random code that you don't understand, and cannot reasonably trust.