Federico

@illusionist @ZILtoid1991 more stable builds, less frequent updates but security issues solved.

@Neptr @ZILtoid1991 in my experience, 90% of the AUR packages work. And AUR is not officially supported by Arch…

@ZILtoid1991
The developers did some communication mistake and used a bad provider for their repo. It looked like they had some SSL error but it actually was an error of pamac showing a wrong error message. There were never any serious problem. I used Manjaro for long, but nowadays, with flatpak, appman, Nixos, distrobox, stew, and so on, you can have updated software even in Debian. I switched after years with Manjaro also because Debian offers the best security standards after Ubuntu.

@possiblylinux127

1. Password is not mandatory
2. Some organizations require ultra-simple password formats (e.g. 6 digits)
3. Afaik password is not enabled by default in windows

Call this security… It’s just a marketing lock-in strategy. A good old password is all you need for encrypting a disk.

@possiblylinux127 Exactly. So if someone steals your laptop it can just press the power on button to read your disk. Security my ass.

@possiblylinux127 And allows to decrypt the disk if someone steals your laptop: it can just turn it on to read it…

@cm0002 Never understood why one should use tpm when there are good old passwords. It would be better to enforce a long password. To me TPM always looked like a marketing strategy masked by security tools: in the end it’s a device that makes it mandatory to use your hard-drive on a specific machine. It’s even weaker than a good password. Am I wrong?