The same cannot be said of flatpaks. AUR stands for Arch User Repo, which is a user-driven unofficial package source. Flatpak on the other hand has some official channels for certain software applications like Firefox for example.

Now I've never used Arch or AUR, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think AUR has official software channels like flatpak does. Right?

If I'm right, flatpak definitely is a lot safer than AUR. As long as you don't download your flatpaks from unofficial channels. This is actually a good advantage for Snaps which are thoroughly checked by Canonical.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Plus packages are manually inspected to ensure they meet Flathubs packaging requirements.