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[-] fl42v@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Which is by almost all means better than downloading a random crap of a package from the web because "that's how it's done on wondows". Seriously, distributing software via repositories is like second most important reason the situation with malware isn't the same on the desktop Linux market (the first being small market share). And nope, that's not because Linux is somehow "more secure", which it isn't.

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