Mactan

ooo a custom wine runner in 2026? daring aren’t we

everything you could want and more already was dreamt up and has a PR for it, you can thank Gnome for stonewalling everything for half a decade or more

highly recommend setting up both grub and a second bootloader, it’s ok to have multiple! really handy when shtf

this thing has ai control of your system out of the gate. the one person I have known to run it had all their credentials stolen and their discord account was posting the Mistor beest images inside a week

Nvidia vram leaks probably won’t respect this either

mpv

I definitely broke some apps that needed it to function when I tried removing it once

sure, but only for that one event, it doesn’t let you persist the preference from there

really missing a gui for setting file associations in 2026?

the biggest problem with manjaro is the AUR, if you stop using it then manjaro is just fine

To potentially prevent this entire class of npm attacks in the future, you could edit /etc/pacman.conf, uncomment

# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg   =

And set it to IgnorePkg = npm

Your system should prompt you to accept installing npm because it’s in the ignore list. These packages set it as a dependency, so that gives you a chance to notice that something’s off and refuse the install. This assumes you don’t already have npm installed or need it for some reason.

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/FGXPCB3ZVCJIV7FX323SBAX2JHYB7ZS4/

edit: word is that bun command is being abused as well and may be worthwhile including in the space separated list:

IgnorePkg = npm bun

the yolo distro, using their users as guinea pigs to test patches that haven’t even gone upstream yet

now to wait another eternity for wine to have the cross process rendering piece, and another eternity for it to get into proton, since now they just run steam itself in the runtime instead of native

oh wow the third xda post of the year about ntsync. it’s been on since November 2025 btw