[BobbyTables2]

AUR and similar repos for other distros scare the hell out of me.

Tutorials using them are so widespread… Start feeling like a weirdo for not wanting to give an unknown rando full indefinite root access to the system, with virtually zero peer review… all to install one version of a package where updates are undesired or infrequent…

[KetoManx64]

You don't have to. The AUR is just a bunch of PKGBUILD text files, which if you don't feel competent enough to read and understand and trust, you can create your own local versions of and install from. It's just a recipe file that says download a program from this github URL, make sure the hash matches and then extract it and move the files to system directories.