Recommend F-Droid over F-Droid Basic

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F-Droid is a fully featured official client for downloading apps.

Why I think this tool should be added

There are currently two reasons listed that F-Droid Basic is recommended: “background updates without privileged extension or root” and “a reduced feature set.”

The “background update” part is no longer true of just F-Droid Basic. F-Droid Basic was recommended in v3.17 on November 1, 2023. However, in F-Droid 1.19 on February 1, 2024, F-Droid has been able to have background updates without root or privileged extension.

This makes the only advantage of the basic client a reduced feature set, which I don’t think provides a strong argument on its own.

I have seen no other topic mentioning this. Because of this, I think it is worth reconsidering the official F-Droid client, or at least removing that “background update” clause on the “Obtaining Applications” page.

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Obtaining Applications

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F-Droid Basic is as official as F-Droid tbc. The reduced feature set is intentional and make it more secure, because of a reduced threat surface.

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F-droid basic targets higher Android API hence is more secure.

though F-droid build servers are the worst in security.

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Enlighten me please.

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Please stay on subject. There are other threads discussing F-Droid in general, this isn’t one/

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