>>161047
My first step is going to be figuring out how to compiling/building programs instead of blindly downloading.

git clone http://program.git
cd program
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
make install

>>161052
I guess the idea is that hypothetically there could be malware in the official binaries but the source code is clean so people don't call them out on it like the librewolf binary from the aur.

>>161014
Intel ME doesn't really matter unless you're enemy #1 of israel.