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it's arch but they have their own repo and hold back most packages for a week to make sure they don't break something before deploying them, with moderate success, their main particularity though is to have attracted the hatred of arch users since their creation and even mentioning the name will get you a full lecture about how they're eating babies and selling their body parts
If they would just remove access to the AUR it would solve some things. I used it for years before just getting the itch to distro hop. It worked just fine for me, and I only used the AUR for a handful of things. Now, I'll either compile myself or use flatpak if it's not in any normal repo for any distro I land on.
there should be an authentication system certifying that your computer is using the right set of software before getting acess to the aur, it would be called the "os integrity api" and prevent the use of the aur from unapproved 3rd party software, all you would need to do is to log in to your verified arch user account and request a monthly aur usage token to be created and used by your registered system for the low price of 9.99
Arch users gonna arch