I’m looking for the opinions and experience of unbiased Linux enthusiasts whose daily driver uses an arch based distro.
When I was using and learning EndeavourOS I frequently (enough) came across posts and videos that stated that although the AUR is useful, but it’s use should be limited to keep your system stable. If someone was having issues or a discussion about stability came up, there was always a seemingly condescending tone of “well my system has always worked fine, just don’t install too many AURs and it won’t break”.
However, whenever I see posts that relate to package managers, I always see praises for the AUR that seem to imply that there aren’t really any issues.
Probably about a fifth of the packages I have installed on my daily driver are from the AUR, and most of the time I forget they came from the AUR.
I feel like this is something that I’d encounter. When I prepared my system I found that a lot of software I wanted was primarily available through the AUR since I tend to use open source software.
It is good to know that it hasn’t seemingly presented any major issues