One can google "install .deb fedora" and get a litany of web pages which will contain words explaining how to do this. Fedora (and other distributions) is easy

One can google "install .deb fedora" and get a litany of web pages which will contain words explaining how to do this. Fedora (and other distributions) is easy enough to install that one doesn't really need to be a "Linux geek" in order to be on Linux and such a person is not quite so likely to wonder whether or not they trust the code they're running. Couple that with the fact that it works out well Most Of The Time[0] and you've got a pretty likely scenario even if it affects a relatively small number of people. [0] I mean in general when downloading software as well as in the context of this particular story[1]. [1] > Starting in 2020, the same domain at times redirected users to the domain deb.fdmpkg[.]org, which served a malicious version of the app.