Fryboyter

Personally, I currently prefer Arch for the following reasons.

• AUR
• The Wiki
• The many vanilla packages
• Because you can easily create your own packages with the PKBGUILD files.
• Because, based on my own experience, Arch is quite usable despite the current packages.

If I had to choose another distribution, it would definitely be OpenSuse. Their rolling version, Tumbleweed, is also highly recommended.

Arch is also not more lightweight than other distributions.

With Arch, unlike other distributions, there are no extra dev packages. Thus, everything is present in a single package, so they require more storage space.

Arch's packages also have fixed dependencies on other packages, which in turn have other dependencies. So you can't only install what you actually want, which is often claimed. For example, I would like to uninstall various Bluetooth packages, but I can't because they are dependencies for packages I use.

The basic installation including base-devel requires more than 1 GB of storage space without the GUI. Some distributions need less including the GUI.

How do you notice that you are not really awake yet? By thinking for several minutes about what LXD has to do with containers and then realising that you yourself had LXDE in mind.

AUR however, is untrusted (or rather shouldn’t be trusted), often out of date

So basically like a PPA which are used by many users of Ubuntu. The only difference is that the PKBUILD files used to build the packages are easier to check than the final packages in a PPA. And that's exactly what is a big advantage for me.

sometimes requires compilation,

This is often because a project does not offer ready-made packages that can be downloaded from Github, for example. There are also people who do not trust ready-made packages from unknown third parties. I wouldn't necessarily download and execute a binary file from a Dropbox of a user I don't know. Compiling is the safer way if the source code is downloaded from a more trustworthy source.

and doesn’t even have any good pacman wrappers since yaourt (that I’m aware of).

Personally, I don't think aurutils, paru and yay are bad. I currently use aurutils myself. But as far as AUR helpers are concerned, everyone has their own preferences. That's why there are so many ;-)

when it’s the main reason why so many people use Arch Linux?

AUR is one reason why I use Arch. But not the reason. Besides AUR, Arch has many other advantages from my point of view. Like for example the wiki that also users of other distributions use. Or the many vanilla packages. Or that you can easily create your own packages through the PKGBUILD files. Or that, based on my own experience, Arch is quite problem-free to use despite the current packages.

One reason why other distributions don't have something like AUR could be that AUR is not an official offering, so no verification is done in advance either. Thus, it has happened at least once that someone has manipulated PKGBUILD files in bad faith (https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2018-July/034151.html). The Wiki does not warn against the use for nothing.

However, it is much easier for the user to check the files in the AUR in advance than it is, for example, with ready-made packages in an unofficial PPA.

With https://build.opensuse.org and https://mpr.makedeb.org there are also at least two offers that are somewhat similar to AUR.

However, I would not use the storage boxes as the only backup. The offer has two disadvantages.

• The boxes are regularly unavailable for some time due to maintenance work. But these maintenance times are announced in advance.

• Hetzner does not specify what kind of RAID is used.

I therefore only use my box as an additional offsite backup and to swap out less important files.

Mainstream? Not a chance. Many people know Twitter and Facebook, but they don't know what Lemmy or Reddit is, for example, and therefore don't use it.

And it usually doesn't matter if solution A is better than solution B. What becomes mainstream and what doesn't usually depends on other things.

You will almost certainly be able to use KDE Connect under Xfce. However, some dependencies will most likely be installed during the installation, which in turn have their own dependencies. With a bit of bad luck, you will install half of Plasma, so to speak.

Yes, this is a bug. This has already been reported (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1581) and fixed (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1661). I assume that after the release of Lemmy 0.18.1 everything will work again as it should.

But one thing we don’t have is a true FOSS web, a protocol like HTTP that only allows FOSS websites to be hosted and bars any corporate interest from hosting for profit.

Would something like that be possible?

Possible? Maybe. Meaningful? Not in my opinion.

One principle of free software is that everyone can use it. Also for commercial things. Or for example to control missiles that kill people.

In addition, many companies contribute to the development. Without them, Linux, for example, would not be as developed as it currently is. Whether you like it or not, we need companies. Excluding them would therefore be a mistake.

The amount of data I backup offsite is significantly less than 20 TB. Therefore, my answer to your question will probably not help you.

I store my offsite backups at rsync.net and in one of Hetzners Storage Boxes. For backups in general, I use Borg.

FOSS is all about giving some things for free, and thats it.

I would disagree with that. Free as in freedom, not as in free beer. The GPL as an example even encourages to charge as much as you want or can for the software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en