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[–] 124 points 1 week ago (6 children)

some iconic duos in the Linux community: Arch and AUR malware, Ubuntu and bad updates, NixOS and community/team members leaving, Manjaro and failing to renew its cert.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Debian and shipping broken packages

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Bruh what? I went to debian for server because of stability. It only updates like once a decade and still ships broken packages?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago*

    Its intended behavior from Debian team. because they ships a version of the software at the time and only backport security patches. So if the version they ship has bugs then those bugs stay for years. This generates quite a bit of noise for upstream projects but it is what it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    AUR malware

    Really, something like this ever happened lol?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I'm sure it has. The idea that it's frequent is unhinged.

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Welcome to Linux, do you want the BenevolentDictatorOS, WeaponsManifaturerOS, MalwareOS or Debian?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Ubuntu and bad updates

    This is the only drama in your list I'm not familiar with already. What/when did they last break?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Recently, the nvidia-dkms driver updates wouldn't build for 5.x series kernels, so if you hadn't cleaned up old kernels, the update bombed out before updating the initrd filesystem, the system couldn't boot without intervention. Thankfully, I noticed before trying to reboot my work desktop, and the solution was "apt autoremove && apt upgrade".

    But the install media for my desktop at home was 18.04, and it's running 26.04 now. It has an AMD GPU, so it hasn't had update problems.

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