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  • I have the same problem with CachyOS as I have with Manjaro: holding packages. I’ve been fcked up by aur

    If there is no proper version check for dependencies, it’s a packaging bug.

    That said, people have different priorities. I was mentioning the users that cannot herd their flock of installed Arch packages any longer and need something less involved.

    CachyOS seems it might have same problem.

    Maybe. As you might have inferred from my reply, I’m not a CachyOS user myself. I’m a packager of software for openSUSE (not a contributor to the distribution, just in my own home repo), so I can spot the occasional packaging bug. There’s a bunch of Arch-derived distributions targeting more casual home users (KDE Linux is probably the biggest upcoming one, currently in alpha). Not all support AUR in the first place, though.


  • Ubuntu is dying?

    Yes. Not a hard crash but a constant downward spiral since a few years.

    When do the updates end?

    When businesses realized that moving to distribution that focuses more on pushing garbage like Snap over good maintenance was a mistake (remember that only the small of software in the main repository is actually maintained by Canonical, some stuff in universe is community-maintained but the majority isn’t because backporting cherry picked bug fixes is tedious work for unpaid volunteers). This will take some time but home users are moving away from Ubuntu and the trend will trickle down at some point.