Refactors cursor installation script to use signed deb distributions#73
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We previously downloaded the Cursor AppImage directly from the Cursor website and extracted it ourselves. We used the AppImage because the AUR only offers the beta channel, which has more bugs and integrates poorly with the system terminal (which, in hindsight, might actually be a reasonable security measure 😉).
However, downloading a binary this way doesn't follow security best practices: we have no way to verify that the binary is untampered. Cursor does not publish checksums or GPG signatures for their AppImage downloads.
Cursor's .deb packages are GPG-signed via their APT repository. This PR switches to those, implementing a full verification chain:
The verified .deb is then extracted and installed in an Arch-compatible way.
For the opt-in Nightly track, the script falls back to the unsigned AppImage (with a clear warning), since nightly .deb packages aren't available.