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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gonna be honest with you I'm an intermediate user and understood jack shit of what you just said. A beginner and average user would have probably been scared off by Linux by this point rewding this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I understood the funny words magic man correctly, he is complaining that flatpaks don't come from a single trusted source and may become a vector for malware, unlike official distro repositories. Still, that was a very technobabble way of saying it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds to me like OP is trying to seem smarter than he is then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A beginner and average user would have probably been scared off by Linux by this point rewding this.

Maybe thats what he/she was trying to achieve.