Are community maintained packages as safe as developer-provided ones?

Well, we were discussing that further here. Whether the difference matters to you is not really something I/we can decide for you.

My personal opinion would be to lean towards native installs for browsers specifically, but if I had to use a browser Flatpak on a Flatpak-only OS like Silverblue or Endless I wouldn’t feel unsafe doing so either.

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