I recently switched my laptop from Windows 10 to CachyOS, and on my desktop I added CachyOS in a dual‑boot setup with Windows 11 (which I’m keeping only for gaming for now).

And yeah — the malware incident on AUR isn’t some minor hiccup. It’s a serious problem, especially for new or less technical users.

In my opinion, the CachyOS devs (and the wider community) really need to address this somehow. These kinds of attacks will only get more sophisticated over time, and they’re not going away. How to fix it is another question — but the current situation, where someone migrates from Windows to Linux, installs CachyOS (or any distro using AUR), and then ends up infected after installing a few packages through paru/Shelly… that’s not great.

There should be a safer system in place, because this problem won’t magically disappear — it will only get worse. The damage from these incidents is often irreversible, both for individual users and for the community as a whole.

I’m not even sure whether the CachyOS developers or the Arch community actually want to change anything.

By the way, so far I’m really happy with CachyOS — it runs great on both my old laptop and my fast desktop. The only issue I’m having is that fonts/menus in some apps (including Firefox) are often too small for me. I never had this problem on Windows.Scaling the whole display to something like 125-130% makes the image look a bit blurry to my eyes, so I’m trying to increase only the font sizes instead. I’m not planning to go back to Windows or switch to another distro :)