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Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?
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Please, God, avoid flatpaks, appimages and snaps. They break rules just to break more rules, and you're the victim.
Flatpaks are always going to be better than just installing random software of the Internet. This is true from both and security and reliability context. Software inside flatpak only has the permissions it needs which is a example of least privilege. Furthermore chances are you are getting the software from flathub which more trustworthy than some random repo. If someone tried to do something problematic such as a fake crypto app it will likely be caught.
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Does Flathub curate all their packages?
Yes, to some extent