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Shame they didn't mention that homebrew is a security nightmare and will happily download maliciously modified code
Edit: omg then the author claims flatpak is better for security?!? It has the same nightmare security issues.
That's so true, I was missing this part! With homebrew you're at the mercy of whoever put the package out there, much like with installers (and nix to be fair)
LMAO no‽ Flatpaks can be verified, and you can choose not to install unverified flatpaks (which you should!) They are also containerised pretty well by default, in case they're malicious!
Flatpaks can be verified. Compare that to apt packaged, which must be cryptographically signed.
That's why flatpak isnt secure. If you use it, you might end up running malicious code. Because, unlike most Linux repo package managers, it doesn't require packages to be cryptographically verified as authentic.
I get that it's less secure, but using verified flatpaks beats homebrew by a large margin.
Using apt, yum, dnf, pacman etc beats flatpak by magnitudes
True, but saying Brew is unsafe but Flatpak isn't, isn't too odd, either.