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Remember the 1990s when everyone mocked MS Outlook for downloading and running unverified software automatically?

Now Linux programmers do that intentionally via package managers.

It's not unverified if it comes from an actually curated package repository, like the one on any given Linux distro. "Package maintainer" isn't just obsolete busywork, it's an essential part of a robust security model IMO.

Linux programmers realize that's what they're doing.

Outlook users probably didn't, most of the time.

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