Distros for beginners

[dalto]

@jruschme

If I had one wish for the eOS developers, however, it would be to consider adding chaotic-AUR and pamac to the base installation. I know that this is a terminal-centric distro but I think that those two constitute a basic ease-of-use consideration.

I think that the developers have addressed the pamac by default questions on multiple occasions. A quick search should yield some results there.

As for chaotic-aur, I certainly hope this would never he added by default. If an individual wants to accept that risk I think it is their choice but it isn’t something the distro should force on users by default. See here:

[FAQ] The dangers of using 3rd party repos

This is something I wrote last year and posted somewhere else. I thought it was worth sharing here as I see a lot of people using 3rd party repos. There are often discussions about the dangers of using AUR but it seems like there a lot less focus is on the dangers of using 3rd party repos. In general, using a 3rd party repo is much more dangerous than using AUR. With an AUR package, everything is fully transparent and the package is built on your machines. A quick look at the PKGBUILD file wi…