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What sketchy executables are you downloading?
What makes downloading steam from valve more sketchy than allowing a Linux repo to run arbitrary code as root on your machine for every single one of thousands of pieces of software maintained by strangers?
I remember going to source forge to download MPC-BE
Later found out that they were adding adware to executables
All software is maintained by strangers.
Some software websites just look sketchy but aren't, which makes it harder for people to filter out the actual sketchy ones. That's just the reality. Jokes about download pages with 4 download buttons also didn't come falling out of the sky.