Imagine your friend that does not know anything about linux, don’t you think this would make them not install the firefox flatpak and potentially think that linux is unsafe?

I ask this because I believe we must be careful and make small changes to welcome new users in the future, we have to make them as much comfortable as possible when experimenting with a new O.S

I believe this warning could have a less alarming design, saying something like “This app can use elevated permissions. What does this mean?” with the “What does this mean?” text as a clickable URL that shows the user that this may cause security risks. I mean, is kind of a contradiction to have “verified” on the app and a red warning saying “Potentially unsafe”, the user will think “well, should I trust this or not??”

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    1 年前

    Good.

    People need to view out of channel software with a hairy eyeball.

    Hell, I run Debian all over and it’s absurd that the main repositories don’t do checksums on downloaded packages!

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        yeah apt just trusts the server if it properly identifies itself

        the barrier to entry for attacking that seems pretty high though

        if that freaks you out, switch to a rhel derivative, they got a shiny progress bar