"I installed from apt get, and then I sideloaded from flatpak, and sideloaded from a .deb file"?
Or "installed from the windows store but sideloaded from an .exe file" (literally everything I ever installed was through .exe/.msi on windows)
You can have both and keep a local copy via export once in a while.
If the cloud goes down the also most likely your bank website.
If you're talking about other types of secrets then the first sentence will apply
This isn't really space science related, just commercialization.
And about focusing on Earth: we should let scientists work on what they're passionate about, IMO they'll be more motivated to research their field of choice
Maybe we shouldn't spend so much on the military then