it's not called "side-loading", is "installing" a app,(reply>), @Thomas A So i've been sideloading virtualbox since i had to go into the BIOS (going outside the OS) to enable virtualization? Do i sideload docker on my linux machine since it hooks up directly to the kernel when installing the service? Am i sideloading when i install an unsigned driver since i have to use the "Advanced Boot options" to do it? When you have any kind of equipment you are free to INSTALL anything from anywhere in any way, there are no sides to hardware. "sideloading" is just jargon for "our package manager is the only way you should be able to install anything because you don't own shit", spreading such wordings only deepens the gaslighting done by wannabe monopolies in order to alter society's perceived notion of trust when actually pretty much every piece of software ultimately comes from a compiler made in assembly in the 70's that no one can actually be 100% sure it was written without a backdoor or a timed virus deeply nested and passing through every software compiled ever since. "Installing" isn't vague, it's actually pretty accurate,(reply>), @Thomas A - 'installing is vague and doesn't specify where it comes from'<br>Exactly, which is why it can be easily used to describe installing apps from other sources other than the play store. Hell, even android itself asks if you want to 'install' apks. Not side load<br>I'm sitting here with my non rooted phone, many apps installed that didn't come from the play store,(reply>), “Installing” is vague and doesn’t specify where it comes from though<br><br>And, you don’t have to jailbreak your PC to install or any-direction-load programs onto it.,(reply>), @Block Source I sideloaded many applications and programs on my pc. See how stupid it sounds? Call it what it is, 'installing'. You don't say front loading when downloading off the play store,(reply>), @Block Source I guess then when I am installing something on windows from the browser I am sideloading, as the Microsoft preferred way is through their shitty store