-I've noticed the overall experience of downloading and installing on a lot of "classic" windows apps making installing a little dicier- ads are served on the download page, and look like official install links, and installers themselves have issues like the above.
-App store is one way I supposed - it's a way to cryptographically sign things but with an element of control delegated to the central computer vendor; which is unpalatable to a lot of the open source/free computing crowd
-The one thought that came to me - is blockchain tech - i.e. Blockchain Chicken Farm, NFTs, etc a parallel development to address this sort of thing? The parallel seems to mirror Jennifer 8. Lee's book on the rise of General Tso's Chicken (open source) vs. McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (corporate), vs. the old ESR essay re "The Cathedral vs. the Bazaar" model of Microsoft vs. Linux development?