LeFantome

If you are worried that the script will be malicious, Distrobox does not help.

However, if your main concern is that it is going to make a mess, Distrobox is the perfect solution.

This is the way

I am a massive Distrobox fan. I do not use it for security though.

• create environments for specific purposes: dev, testing, cybersecurity work, video, AI, etc
• access to the full app library of any distro
• isolation of multiple large apps for easy and complete removal when you are done with them
• use Glibc apps on your MUSL distro
• install apps easily on an immutable distro
• total compatibility ( eg. Legally install a real RHEL9 Distrobox for free )
• ”try out” an unfamiliar distro without a VM
• experiment and break things without messing up your main system
• separate your distro base from your userland ( eg. Minimal Debian Stable install with pretty much all apps coming from an Arch Linux Distrobox ). Rock solid stability of the base system paired with a massive ecosystem of up-to-date packages.

Use Slackware to Linux like it is 1993. Nothing wrong with that.

Ya. Ok. But pacman does not let you use the AUR. Using the AUR is one did the primary reasons to choose Arch.

So, if you want to use the AUR, you need to use something like yay or paru. And, if you do, you no longer need to use pacman.

To be clear to the newbies, pacman -Syu updates your entire system ( except packages from the AUR ). yay -Syu updates your entire system, including packages from the AUR.

If you just ran yay -Syu, running pacman -Syu will report that there is “nothing to do” since your system will already be up to date.

The same is true if you sub paru for yay above.

Paru is a yay alternative. You can use either one. Just pointing this out since yay is mentioned in a lot of the other comments. I am not saying not to use paru. I am just pointing out that it is not something different. You can use paru instead of hay in any of the other comments in this thread. Or use yay instead of paru in this one.

You are better off using -Ss with yay than pacman. If you use pacman, it only searches the Arch repos. If you use yay, it also searches the AUR.

The only thing I have ever installed using Flatpak on Arch is pgAdmin. Inkscape from the repos works fine for me.

If you go the EOS route, yay is already installed.

With my IISP, the base package comes with 4 TB of bandwidth and I pay and extra $20 a month for “unlimited”.

I am not sure of “unlimited” has a limit. It may. It is not in the small print though. I may just be rate limited ( 3 Gpbs ).

I think anywhere outside the US or Australia will do.

I have 3 Gbps home Internet ( up and down ). I get over 300 Megabytes per second.

Can they not torrent a bunch of that bandwidth?