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    What? No .exe? Aawww, fuck this man, I'm outta here... (sh.itjust.works)
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    [โ€“] expr 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The software itself may or may not be more secure, but acquiring software is absolutely more secure. There's so much Windows malware people unwittingly download from the internet. Downloading from a distro's software repository simply doesn't have that problem.

    [โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

    Also, when not using repositories it is much more common to go to the source, like GitHub releases, etc.