alt Hacker NewsI've started using winget to install my apps for exactly this reason. I can't keep track of every url for every piece of software.
I've started using winget to install my apps for exactly this reason. I can't keep track of every url for every piece of software.
Is that safe? Microsoft's policy [1] seems to say that anyone can publish an update to a package as long as it passes "an automated process" which checks that it's "not known to be malicious".
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/pa...