This the guy that attacked Debian for being “woke”; ain’t watching him.

Even Richard Stallman uses Linux.

Thanks to you all for helping me understand it :)

Hi! Thank you for your reply. So, if I understood correctly, whenever I click on “Install from Debian/GNU Linux” on Discover I am getting software directly from Debian’s repository (thus, a “repository” in the sense that it’s a place where this software is stored and can be retrieved); same thing when clicking on “Install from Flathub” for a Flatpak from Flathub. This does seem like the safest approach in the sense that it’s the less risky one and, if malware did slip through, such as the XZ backdoor, at least it would not have been due to a personal mistake of mine, but a general one which would’ve affected much more people too.

This, in turn, is different from APT, which is not Debian’s repository, but Debian’s package manager. So, technically, I could write “sudo apt install (anything)” to get any piece of software from Debian’s repository indeed, but I could also use that command to get software from somewhere else also in the form of a Deb package but which would not have come from Debian itself.

Did I get this right?

Thanks a bunch.

Thank you! Honestly, it’s quite amazing that I can enjoy such complex pieces of software made by and taken care of by the community while not trying to sell me anything or sell my data in return. I love Debian and FLOSS in general.

Thanks for joining the conversation and help make things clear. This does help; so, basically, not having manually enabled anything else than Flathub/Flatpaks on Discover, and having Debian’s repository already, I am fine as long as I install programmes from either of those two.

Thank you for your insightful comment. If I may incur once again in noobieness, what precisely do you mean when you say the “repository” of my distribution? Do you mean the pieces of software than come preinstalled with the OS itself?

Thank you; this helps me to better understand it.

Hi! Thank you for your comment.

You are right in what you said; I should’ve phrased my question better. What I meant was that I didn’t want the ChatGPT-like generative AI kind of thing that tends to hallucinate included in my translation solution of choice. I had just visited the Reverso website prior to writing this post and it was all like AI this, and AI that, and, frankly, it’s gotten to the point where it is simply fatiguing to have those two letters shovelled up my throat permanently wherever I go.

So, yeah, I of course wouldn’t mind my translator to keep using the kind of technology that makes translators function, but do despise the slop they are trying so hard for us to accept.

I have downloaded, but have not tried yet, Dialect on my computer, and am still looking for a solution for my phone.

Thanks again.

For real, not having the mouse slows you down big time, even though I’m more or less skilled at keyboard shortcuts

OMG I just realized about that hahahaha

Fool of me, I searched “Great Tits” to learn more about this bird and, well… Don’t do it.

Thank you! I actually rather not use proprietary fonts if possible

Thank you for your insight!

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Thank you! That’s great insight. It looks like, even though I was wanting to escape from Microsoft, I was still using their products in the form of fonts lol

That sounds actually huge and was not at all aware of it. Definitely will be looking into using open/libre ones whenever possible.

Thank you for the info; I imagined Liberation Self in particular was indeed open source and it’s good to get to know more about it.

Oh, I see; well, thank you for the detailed explanation! So it’s nothing weird, after all