That makes you an idiot and/or liar (I'm going with both) because F-Droid 100% audits every app it hosts that's the fucking point.
There is a couple of levels of audits but all apps get audited.

Really? Because my main desktop is a headless Ubuntu build with GUI apps. There's a reason aliasing is a thing.

I guess there's a difference between you and "real Linux users".

It's not that special and it's not just iPhones it works on Android as well.

Your carrier (AT&T/Verizon/T-Mo/MVMO's) can install non-GUI software on any phone in the network without your permission or knowledge.
This software is always analytical - as in gathering data for said carrier or whoever is paying them shit tons of money (like 3 letter agencies).

To make that phone work on a network you've given them half your key from the jump the only way to half ass stop it is to install something like GraphiteOS or LineageOS and sandbox the shit out of the carrier based side of the connection.

As to how I would know that? I've worked for every major carrier except Verizon in the enterprise hardware side and I've seen it in action as well as being the "man in the middle" guy cracking packet encryption with big iron F5's.

It's not anything new, exciting or hush-hush. It's been like this since Bush Jr. installed fiber splits in AT&T's DC's.

Yes that was the killer feature I was waiting for.

That's a orange vs apple comparison.

Anything being downloaded from F-Droid has had a security audit all the way up to a full code audit depending on what it's trying to do.
Anything being downloaded from the Google Play Store is an un-managed shit show that can never be trusted.

Absolutely nothing can convince me the version from the Play Store is the same code as on F-Droid without a full audit.
The fact that even fucking Google is pumping there breaks on complete file system access means something is wrong.

Repeat after me kids - no software should have ring-0 control of the hardware/file system.

I can't wait for all those wallflowers to run into real corporate union reps and find out what the real world is like.

Amazon almost always waves the S3 data transfer fee's as there stupidly high from the start and they already raped you on daily storage fee's anyway which is the real bread & butter money maker.

No AI didn't devalue the meaning of the word "Engineer" it was hopped up programmers 20 years ago that thought they were the equivalent of hardware engineers let alone the big "E" graduate program grads without a single math or science class to there name.

Show me a programmer that can do advanced math and I guarantee it's someone with a math degree pretending to be a programmer.

So your saying you've never even used WSL2 and your an idiot, got it.

WSL2 doesn't give you a full Linux environment it's a subset of bash commands, a 5.15 kernel and the ability to launch graphical UI's from bash.
No one is running a Linux desktop from WSL2. The most handy GUI I run is Remmina which beats the hell out of RDC.

What we do use it for is Bind9 dns commands (dig for starts), network tools, etc because our work does not allow us to run anything but Win11 and getting windows based tools installed is nearly impossible but I can install WSL2 and Windows Terminal on any machine and apt install anything I want.

Ping and Curl is for programs I'm an actual hardware Eng.

No one outside of Bluesky cares about that pit of toxic shit.

Hey folks look another idiot!

Yes mama was right your so special.
This has nothing to do with running Linux but you just couldn't help yourself.

This is about having Linux tools inside a Win10/11 work machine

I could do that before manually. What I really want is to get out of the 5.15 kernel WSL has been stuck in or let me update it myself.

Talk about idealistic.

A union is just a second CEO that's raping one of your other collective holes. They have proven they are only out for themselves and there DNC CEO.
The only way to stop that mess is by being said CEO.