AUR

If you fired up yay -Syu over the past week and noticed your AUR packages silently refusing to update, you’re not imagining it — and it isn’t a bug in your helper. As of August 1, 2026, Arch Linux disabled all pushes to the Arch User Repository, meaning maintainers could no longer publish updates, new versions, or fixes to the community package collection that most of us rely on daily. The AUR stayed up and readable, but writes were locked down while the project fought off its third supply-chain attack since June. ...

I have not switched back to Kubuntu yet. I am still daily-driving Manjaro KDE on my ASUS Vivobook Pro 15, with Plasma 6.6.5, Wayland, btrfs, and a hybrid Intel Arc + NVIDIA RTX 3050 setup. But I have been running Kubuntu 26.04 LTS in VirtualBox, comparing the two side by side, and asking a question I did not expect to ask again after several happy years on Arch-based rolling release: ...

If you’re using Manjaro KDE and rely on Dropbox AUR for file syncing, you might have encountered a frustrating issue where the Dropbox tray icon perpetually shows “connecting” while the app itself works and syncs files perfectly in the background. After spending considerable time experimenting with various solutions, I finally found a fix that resolves this issue. The Issue After installing the Dropbox AUR package on my Manjaro KDE system, everything seemed to work fine except for the tray icon. It kept displaying “connecting” indefinitely. This was annoying because it made it hard to quickly check the sync status of my files without opening the main application window. ...