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Be careful downloading Windows 11 apps from Google, 70+ fake sites are pushing malware right now
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Windows users get what they deserve here. Windows gave you an app store, and you spat on it. maybe it was a bad implementation, but signed apps exist for a reason.
Free Software package managers are good, because having somebody who knows what they're doing curate the apps for you is helpful. "App stores" are evil, because you've replaced that expert with a salesperson with a vested interest in exploiting you.
again, why do you hate yourself? do you think using Windows and holding it wrong is empowering? i don’t get it.
trust is required somewhere. if you don’t trust Microsoft, why would you use Windows in the first place?
I use Linux and have done exclusively for almost a decade, dipshit. Get some reading comprehension skills.
Boy oh boy, was it ever a bad implementation. Whoooo nelly was (is) that.
I use PPAs in Linux and I stay clear of the AUR. Entire open source projects have added such things to Windows but Microslop still rejects doing it properly themselves. Torches and pitchforks for Redmond one day!
Winget is the equivalent to AUR
Wait Winget is a user repository- as-in it's completely unpoliced? Hahah I stand corrected
According to MS there are various validation steps when app is added to repository, including virus checks:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/package/repository#validation-process
So I guess it's safer to install apps trough winget, at least as much as much You trust Microslop doing good job.
In my case that's not at all, but I learned something today, thanks
why work on a feature that your users categorically reject? this isn’t me projecting, i literally have this conversation with a buddy all the time. he’s a programmer and talks about all the problems with Windows like there aren’t options. use the OS the way the devs designed it, pick a different one, or stfu
Kind of a bad take. "Windows fits my use case best. But it would be even better if the package management was improved." "Stfu, pick a different OS"
You say that like malware can't be signed
Or that perfectly legitimate software can't be used in nefarious ways. Teamviewer, for example.
you say that like that makes it not worth doing
It can be, but the certificate would be quickly revoked and signing ones aren't exactly cheap. Also app store does a little bit of app checking I'd say.
woof these downvotes. Windows users will never stop hating themselves