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by nix23 1540 days ago
That's not what i asked, why do you trust a no name dev more then the distro your kernel is coming from? And do you really think flatpack prevents you from running packed malware?
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Why do you assume the flatpak comes from a no name dev? My calculator flatpak comes from the same people who wrote it, and I obviously trust them, otherwise I wouldn't be using their application.

So why should I trust them less than my distribution?

Ever used npm?
No, and how is that even relevant?
>So why should I trust them less than my distribution?

Just use google -> npm malware

I said I'm not using npm.

With my calculator flatpak I only have to trust one person and to a much lesser degree, because they declared that the calculator can't access my personal files to begin with. The same app in my distribution repository has full read-write access to all my users files, network access and much more. So yeah, I trust it more.

Distribution maintainers are nothing but a middle man, which don't even audit the code they package, so there's nothing I gain from them.