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I would guess most of those are tools aimed at developers, who can take that risk if they wish. For most users, almost anything they want is either in official
by didntcheck 3y ago
I would guess most of those are tools aimed at developers, who can take that risk if they wish. For most users, almost anything they want is either in official repos, or in Flatpaks, which offer some sandboxing (although I guess a malicious Flatpak could just ask for excessive permissions, like a random apk)
- the_af 3y agoDevelopers are less common than regular users, but still they are among the "common" users of operating systems, so that use case must be handled. Malware on Windows also gets distributed in tools supposedly for developers, after all.