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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I think it's absurd that most distros have no tools whatsoever for doing regular checksums of their own files. Windows certainly got that part right IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m double checking this myself now, but there are plenty of tools (debsum) they’re just not part of the default implementation as of last time I looked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right, I'm talking about like periodic or real-time scanning and alerting, which DISM/SFC on windows does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

i'm almost 100% that debsums on apt stuff and the --verify flag in rpm distros do what sfc did. (kinda, debsums and --verify check against a list of checksums from the repo, i'm pretty sure sfc cracks open an actual known version of the files and compares em with whats on disk)

idk what dism does.