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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Nothing like that "new distro" feel (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Thank you.

I don't think anybody wants to take responsibility for actually endorsing the use of AUR with their distro. That's why helpers are not installed by default on Arch, that's why support is disabled by default on Manjaro even though the pamac helper itself is installed, and so on.

AUR is a wildcard. It's anybody's guess whether packages will work at any given time and whether they'll work after your next system upgrade, and if course they're have been all kinds of issues, overlapping package names being just one example.

I don't think "AUR compatibility" is something that any Arch-based distro aims for, certainly not one of the primary goals anyway.