• ritchie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I always check if the was packaged by the developer. I tend not to trust apps packaged by someone else.

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      7 months ago

      I always check if the was packaged

      the gnome app store shows the verified status of apps, im pretty sure the kde one does too

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      7 months ago

      Unfortunately the developer often doesn’t have packages or they don’t update them.

      Such is the case for Zoom. I downloaded the “official” distribution but I had no way to update it so it eventually became stale and started breaking.

      Also Discord. There was no official release until very recently.