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You act like the choice is either having a small official repo plus PPAs or a small official repo plus AUR, when the context of this thread is a comparison is w

You act like the choice is either having a small official repo plus PPAs or a small official repo plus AUR, when the context of this thread is a comparison is with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed which has a large official repo (plus PPAs in the form of other OBS repositories if you really need them, but you almost certainly don't). A large amount of software that an Arch user has to use the AUR for is in the OpenSUSE oss repo that is supported officially and "tested" when snapshots are released (though the amount of testing varies with the software, of course).

Sakos 2y ago
Because it is. When using OpenSuse, I still had to go looking for packages that weren't in the official repos. > plus PPAs in the form of other OBS repositories if you really need them, but you almost certainly don't This is extremely presumptive and wrong. I find it very frustrating that any issues with these official repos is dismissed as "oh but you don't need extra PPAs ever". My guy, yes, I do. It happens way too often and it's very frustrating when it does, because the options for handling it in non-Arch based distros are completely insufficient and terrible. But then again, what do I expect. Any complaints about Linux are pretty much always dismissed out of hand. I actually prefer using Windows because Windows users generally aren't such arrogant pricks when there are issues.