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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 892918">The only thing I will mention about the AUR (being this is a security forum) is that I wouldn&#039;t recommend just downloading anything and everything off of it. For those who don&#039;t know, the AUR stands for &quot;Arch User Repository,&quot; meaning that it is a repository of programs that is maintained by users, not by the main developers of Arch. Because of this, there is always the potential that someone could upload something maclicious to the AUR. There are very respected AUR users that watch over this, but they cannot gaurentee that they will catch everything. If you are going to use the AUR, you have to do your reasearch on the entry. Look at the comments, votes, but most importantly the PKGBUILD so you know what it&#039;s doing. This is where having an understanding of Linux and basic knowlege of these scripts will come in handy.I haven&#039;t tired it, but I honestly wouldn&#039;t bother with it. As I&#039;ve said in my previous post, you can game pretty much on any distro on linux, it just may take a little more tinkering to get it going on some distros. Having a &quot;gaming&quot; distro really isn&#039;t necessary. I would just stick with main distros instead of these one off &quot;gaming&quot; distros. Some aren&#039;t even maintained by the main developers. Many of them are just side projects for someone, so really you have to look to them to keep things going, which is too much of a hassle IMHO.Agreed!This is where people start to hate Linux IMHO.[USER=554]@grimreaper1014[/USER]&nbsp;&nbsp; I would follow the advice of my fellow forurm members. Continue to use Lubuntu and get comfortable with it and how Linux works in general. A lot of people run into issues because the constantly distro hop and never really take the time to learn thing properly and get comfortable. After which they get very frustrated and stop using it entirely. Each distro will have it&#039;s quirks, so my advice would be to stick with Lubuntu as it is based off of Debain/Ubuntu and is traditionally more stable. However as [USER=82514]@Fuzzy_Bunny[/USER] said, anything can break.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 892918"] The only thing I will mention about the AUR (being this is a security forum) is that I wouldn't recommend just downloading anything and everything off of it. For those who don't know, the AUR stands for "Arch User Repository," meaning that it is a repository of programs that is maintained by users, not by the main developers of Arch. Because of this, there is always the potential that someone could upload something maclicious to the AUR. There are very respected AUR users that watch over this, but they cannot gaurentee that they will catch everything. If you are going to use the AUR, you have to do your reasearch on the entry. Look at the comments, votes, but most importantly the PKGBUILD so you know what it's doing. This is where having an understanding of Linux and basic knowlege of these scripts will come in handy. I haven't tired it, but I honestly wouldn't bother with it. As I've said in my previous post, you can game pretty much on any distro on linux, it just may take a little more tinkering to get it going on some distros. Having a "gaming" distro really isn't necessary. I would just stick with main distros instead of these one off "gaming" distros. Some aren't even maintained by the main developers. Many of them are just side projects for someone, so really you have to look to them to keep things going, which is too much of a hassle IMHO. Agreed! This is where people start to hate Linux IMHO. [USER=554]@grimreaper1014[/USER] I would follow the advice of my fellow forurm members. Continue to use Lubuntu and get comfortable with it and how Linux works in general. A lot of people run into issues because the constantly distro hop and never really take the time to learn thing properly and get comfortable. After which they get very frustrated and stop using it entirely. Each distro will have it's quirks, so my advice would be to stick with Lubuntu as it is based off of Debain/Ubuntu and is traditionally more stable. However as [USER=82514]@Fuzzy_Bunny[/USER] said, anything can break. [/QUOTE]

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