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submitted 2 months ago by unicornBro@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I just installed Debian with the KDE desktop and I'm looking to see what kind of packages are available in the Discover store by default as they are not labeled i.e., Snaps/Flatpak. Should I install Flatpak? Thanks I don't to break anything

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[-] duckiegobrrr@kbin.earth 5 points 2 months ago

a lot of apps on the flathub website say "Unverified"

Those are usually either wrappers for proprietary stuff, for example the Chrome flatpak is unverified because it's not from Google themselves but rather somebody grabbing the official deb/rpm and rebuilding it into a flatpak (this is also how a lot of e.g. AUR packages on Arch work, basically), or open source stuff for which the dev/packager simply didn't care enough to do the verification stuff that Flathub wants you to do (doesn't actually seem that hard, but one might simply not have been aware of it or something).

Don't recall people particularly complaining about the unverified badges before Mint started hiding unverified flatpaks by default, though; suddenly after that "everybody" started noticing them.

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