Quoting: StellaI don't see this performing well on the Deck. The minimum specs (1070) are over 100% higher than Steam Deck's GPU. And if it's anything like Control, you want at least 40-60fps for it to be playable. SD can probably run it at 30, but a fast paced action game like this won't be playable at 30.

Not saying I'm expecting it having stellar performance by any means, specially when their previous game (AW2) runs awful on the Deck. But those specs are for 1080p with upscaling. 720p/800p with upscaling should be more forgiving on the requirements. Let's just hope for the best (and stay prepared for the worst 😅).

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Looks like they want to make their own Roblox. But Roblox ran even on that budget tablet from 2021 you threw to the bin a year ago, and this will require one of those pricey computers with plenty RAM and even there it will stutter.

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Quoting: MayeulCOne-liner to check locally-installed packages against the published list [External Link]:
 
pacman -Qq | grep -xFf <(curl "https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA/download")
I do have 5 matches on my system, but I am not really worried, as I update my AUR packages maybe twice a year 😅

I had 3 matches:

mingw-w64-libcroco
mingw-w64-pcre
mingw-w64-sdl

But most recently updated one was on december 2025, and I am quite careful with AUR. I use pikaur and always check the package build files on first install, and the diffs on updates.

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Quoting: SlaxerThis is pretty bad. Luckily, I don't have too many packages from the AUR. I think I'm fine, thank God.

Quoting: doragasuAUR does not have package checks by definition, it puts that weight on the user.

As I always say, I have been using Arch as my main distro for 10+ years, and despite that (maybe because of that) I never recommend Arch!

We all start off as beginners. You don't have to not recommend it. If you do recommend it, just explain the reasons for why someone would want to try Arch. Arch is for people who are interested in really learning how to do things on their own, and don't mind scraping their knees a bit by learning things the hard way. It's also good for people that just want to be aware of every package on a clean install.

My first distro was Slackware, and I reckon it's much harder to get into as a beginner than Arch is, especially during the mid 2000s. If I can learn my way through it, anybody can.

In my opinion, people that will benefit from using Arch are not the ones that usually ask you for a Linux distro recommendation. That's the reason I have never recommended Arch. It's my distro of choice, but IMO for most Linux users it's a bad choice.

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Quoting: Liam Squires-Hand

Quoting: Breizh

the Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) needs some better security and package checks […] for some improvements to the packaging processes to prevent this from happening in future.

Well, there is no check at all currently. The AUR is just a way for user to share what they use personnally, it shouldn’t be trusted.

People that use AUR recipes without checking them before can only be angry against themself, it’s like getting a random script on GitHub and running it blindly…

Of course, cleaning the AUR as it’s going now is a good thing, but Arch could simply close the AUR and ask people to share their PKGBUILDs elsewhere instead.

That's my point though - it *needs* some checks. Otherwise, the people responsible for keeping the AUR online become responsible for helping to spread malware. Just telling people to check whatever code or recipe isn't going to cut it.

While you are rising a valid point, I don't see how that could happen. AUR packages can pull sources from anywhere and run any kind of script, and thus automated checks do not seem possible. And if they manually check them, well, they would just not be AUR packages, they would be normal packages.

IMO they should implement a system to report packages, but other than that I think there's little they can do other than closing AUR entirely (and IMO that would be a great loss, I am currently using 54 AUR packages on my system, and I maintain 14 of them: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?SeB=m&K=doragasu [External Link]).

Also note that IMO this problem is not that big for power users using Arch, but for users of Arch derivatives that incorporate tools that automatically install and update software from AUR without the user understanding the risks. On standard Arch, for you to install an AUR packages you have to follow the wiki to manually build at the very least an AUR helper, and understand the risks.

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AUR does not have package checks by definition, it puts that weight on the user.

As I always say, I have been using Arch as my main distro for 10+ years, and despite that (maybe because of that) I never recommend Arch!

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Looks OK, but doesn't look like the best TR game out there. I think I'll pass on this. There are so many awesome games there competing for my time, so...

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Quoting: MohandevirQuantum break, Alan Wake and Control have the same weirdness to them. I don't know how much of that is true, but I read somewhere that these games were intended to be part of a shared universe with possible crossovers... At minimum there are a lot of easter eggs referring to one another, but the idea sounded cool though.

As you wrote on your edit, Alan Wake and Control are part of the RCU (Remedy Connected Universe). AFAIK, Quantum Break is not part of the RCU. Alan Wake has even a complete DLC episode starring Jack from Quantum break. But the only DLC episode that is canon is Lakehouse. All other are "what ifs".

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This looks awesome. Want it <NOW/IMMEDIATELY>.

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Anyone old enough to remember Knuckle Joe on the arcades? 😆

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