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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What Linux distro surprised you the most? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

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[–] sga@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

there is one more thing - unless you are using something like chaotic aur, or a very popular package, please pay attention to PKGBUILDS. These are essentially bash scripts which can (depending on your package manager) will run with highest permissions. They can do anything

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago

They also may not compile stuff from source, they can download and install binaries and some AUR packages do exactly that.

There's zero guarantee when using AUR. It's not supported by Arch for a reason.