> Are you opposed to package managers, publicly posted hashes, GPG, and even TLS works with the same method. A lot of people are opposed to centralized package

> Are you opposed to package managers, publicly posted hashes, GPG, and even TLS works with the same method. A lot of people are opposed to centralized package managers - not the (desktop) Linux ones, since Linux distros aren't monopolish enough to have political power, but their proprietary equivalents, the Windows Store and Mac App Store (also mobile app stores but that's a bit different). Nothing stops you from installing software from outside the store on Macs (in fact the store's pretty dead), but there's no end of complaints about walled gardens and speculation about an iOS-style lockdown being implemented in the future. Ditto on Windows, but Gabe Newell famously called Windows 8 a catastrophe (and was widely cheered for it) and started a big Linux push, just because Microsoft created a store to compete with his own company's centralized store.