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Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware (www.phoronix.com)
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[โ€“] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wonder if a SteamDeck could somehow get infected this way...

That would surely be a rather unlikely scenario but it's interesting.

[โ€“] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Highly likely, actually. SteamOS is Arch-based, and if a user installs things through the AUR on their deck (like a password manager or a VPN that isn't part of the official upstream repo), then it would be infected exactly the same as any other Arch-derived OS.