Not the same, but yes.
The things is you can usually trust popular GH repos. There are many eyes watching. The builds are usually reproducible and transparent. You have the checksum to make sure you downloaded the correct file, etc.
You can never be 100% sure but this is way better than...
Just a tip.
Don't download .exe files from (almost) anywhere. It's not 2005 anymore. You don't know the authors. You don't know if the files uploaded there have been tampered. You have to traceability. The incentives for some people to put malware in software are huge.
It's not that installing...
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