Comment by realusername
17 hours ago
There's vetting, apps like Facebook or Candy Crush would never past the most basic repository scrutiny if you made it Linux native and would never be included anywhere, even if they were made open source.
You can constrast that with the Play Store where just searching for ChatGPT brings you a fake app on top (and before you bring the appstore, it was the same there until they banned the keyword after some bad press)
And yeah it's up to you if you install something outside of repositories, it's your computer.
The point is, for many use cases you need to install third-party software, including closed-source software, and I want an OS to be able to run it safely. That's the purpose of OS - allow running software.
In reality, third-party software like Docker or Node.JS typically suggests that you sudo-curl-bash the script from the Internet. How worse could it be.