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Is it safe to assume that all apps from the software store (Discover in my case) are safe? (lemmy.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Cekan14@lemmy.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi, there!

Newbie question here: basically, the title. Perhaps what I'm asking is pretty obvious, but I'd like to double-check with the community on this.

I use Discover on my Debian KDE Plasma set-up, with Flatpaks enabled (but not Snaps). Sometimes, I come across apps (I did just yesterday, searching for translation apps to replace DeepL), that have according to its page, an unknown author and, sometimes, even an unkown licence, but which do require access permission to the whole system (this latter requirement applying specifically to Deb packages, from what I've seen).

Under these circumstances, is it safe to assume that such apps will still be safe because of the fact that they appear listed on Discover (in other words, is Discover a guarantee of safety for the apps it shows, as in, some type of checked or proved content), or should I still be wary of potentially malicious software included on it?

Thank you very much in advance :)

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I look at it this way: The repository is hosted by, or endorsed by, the developers of the distro. If you don't trust their software repository, why would you trust the distro itself?

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Flatpak's show up in discover, and aren't by the distro. Usually it's flathub.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

Which is why I said "or endorsed by". Fedora's Discover points to their own .rpm repo, their own flatpak repo, and Flathub. Including Flathub out of the box says "We the distro maintainers trust Flathub."