This is especially gnarly as more people have been picking up arch distros as of late (like CachyOS).

On the bright side you can get quite far without the AUR.

I have 1,135 packages installed. Only 3 top level packages are from the AUR and 2 of those 3 are from the same author, they just happened to split their packages into a client / server architecture.

	▲	simoncion 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is similar to my situation with Gentoo. Across my Gentoo systems, I have exactly one package installed from an "overlay" [0], and that's Steam. Everything else is straight out of the official package tree. [0] ...which is -IIRC- Gentoo's term for a user-provided and entirely-unvetted collection of packages...

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scary-size 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Installed CachyOS to replace my Win 10 installation a month ago. Not looking back! But yeah this sucks, I've mostly used Ubuntu with apt in the past. Pacman and makepkg felt a bit weird to use in the beginning.

	▲	Matl 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Best to stick to official repositories only.