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During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They also may not compile stuff from source, they can download and install binaries and some AUR packages do exactly that.

There's zero guarantee when using AUR. It's not supported by Arch for a reason.