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by diego_sandoval 850 days ago
And more generally, avoid installing apps from centralized repositories/ App stores. Go to the official source if available.
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No actually, official distribution repositories are preferable if they are properly maintained. Debian for example has provided such centralized repositories that can absolutely be trusted for decades. Otherwise you'd have to update each application manually and/or trust each application's update mechanism (also bad).

Snap is only bad because the people developing snap are incompetent. The idea itself isn't bad.