> It's quite concerning that you frame this as a bad idea.
Downloading and executing other people's compiled software is how things worked for many decades. It's only been in recent years that people have come to believe that Google/Microsoft/Apple should be the final authorities on which executables are safe to run.
> It's only been in recent years that people have come to believe that Google/Microsoft/Apple should be the final authorities on which executables are safe to run.
I mean, the OS package repositories at least have some vetting and processes behind them, as opposed to a random website found online - so there's surely middle ground there!
You don't need to give everything up to a few big corpos to have at least a bit of a sense of security - I personally trust the Debian maintainers quite a bit due to their track record, short of bad actors infiltrating the community or accounts getting compromised.
Downloading and executing other people's compiled software is how things worked for many decades. It's only been in recent years that people have come to believe that Google/Microsoft/Apple should be the final authorities on which executables are safe to run.