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Many orgs mandate this. You'll be fine.
I used to roll out mint xfce edition or Qubes to our staff laptops, unless an employee asked for a specific distro. I think some used fedora.
Don't use flatpak; its a security risk.
Why is flatpak a security risk? The applications run isolated and offer higher security, unless I'm missing something?
Because it doesn't verify the authenticity of code it downloads before it installs it
I don't think that that's true. At least not more than for any other community maintained packages.
Debain is community maintained packages and they've done signed manifests on all packages, required by default, since like 2002.
Flapak and snap are terribly insecure compared to standard distro package managers
What? No! Flatpak and Snap are the new trendy toys! How dare you criticize them!
/s
Neither does dnf/apt/pacman. You are always at the mercy of the package maintainer(s).
Nope. Apt definitely cryptographiclly verifies the signatures of everything that it downloads. See
man apt-secureI'm aware, signing the package is not the same thing as signing the code. The application is built by the package maintainer(s) and then the resulting packages are signed.
Which is the same thing that Flatpak does. Both depend on the trust for the repo owner and the package maintainer.