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At this point the #1 is that I believe directly paying relatively small developers money for software produces by far the most user friendly (in many senses) desktop software. On the mac, that model is still thriving. Everywhere else you have maybe a handful of great options. Apart from that you get some Electron SaaS, some ancient professional software and some messy open source options. If you‘re lucky maybe some mac ports like Tower or Paw.

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I don't think that feasable from a security standpoint. Ideally, software would be open-source and authored under the supervision of a handful of trusted parties.

The metaphorical "chain of trust" is strongest when it's composed of a few strong links, and when its cracks are visible.

What you're suggesting is that we should use a model with many small links and invisible cracks.

I‘m talking about desktop software for personal computers, not infrastructure software or services or anything. I trust the software developer and I trust apple. There’s a signature/certificate chain between those two. It’s fine.

Of course that‘s not acceptable for some people and for some use cases but it is for me.

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