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Signal AppImage now officially available for Linux (aboutsignal.com)
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[–] 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The flatpak has always been unofficial so many people distrust it for that reason

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (6 children)

    The signal-desktop package on Arch Linux isn't official either, I'm guessing — should that not be trusted either?

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    If you don't trust your distro packages, you should not use that distro. In my mind Arch Linux maintainers are way more trustworthy than a random guy maintaining the Flathub version.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't Arch just have a major security issue due to their packages essentially being random guys too? (And I think the same thing could theoretically happen to most distributions?)

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    No, that was AUR. Those were user-generated packages with nearly no vetting.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    To add to that, the wiki also makes it pretty clear users should be careful. It's nice to have for packages that aren't in the main repos, so it makes sense to have it somewhat part of the distro, but it does take manual effort to install aur packages, so in my mind, that's the best way to do it.

    Big red label at the top: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

    Windows users are out there downloading random exe files...

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