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The pattern of using managed repositories instead of downloading random shit off the internet prevents a lot of it outright.
Just have to remember which repos are “managed” and which are not. Installing stuff from PyPi or NPM might actually require you to read through quite a lot of code before installing. I don’t think most people are that diligent.
yup, that's why i avoid it like the plague.
It's .deb's and .rpm's all the way down.
And sometimes flatpaks. And sometimes AppImages.
But never pips, gems or any of that sort of ...