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@cwebber@octodon.social I feel like there's a lot of downsides to end users by having this restriction which would reduce adoption outside of tech people that care about this stuff very strongly.
In my experience the average person want's to do as little as possible to get something running. It's why app stores and websites are so popular IMO.
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@mauve @cwebber It's funny to me because since smartphones got popular, I've always explained distro/ports repositories as basically "app stores but community-based and providing additional safety & maintenance guarantees".
