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Signal AppImage now officially available for Linux (aboutsignal.com)

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[–] AcornTickler@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 4 months ago

Ah gotcha, that is different indeed!

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[–] AngryPancake@sh.itjust.works 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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