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They're application distribution models that have a great impact on security. > the best you can do is an anecdote about "some software" you don't remember at

They're application distribution models that have a great impact on security. > the best you can do is an anecdote about "some software" you don't remember at all? It was a wallpaper changer, and it was 3-5 years ago and I didn't keep a detailed journal of my Windows experiences. But it tells you something if you can be infected with malware from the official Microsoft apps store. That's not a platform I want to be doing banking or even email on. I like Android for lots of things, but a model of safe and responsible software distribution it is NOT. Anyway, if you like the separate namespaced app model, Linux offers that possibility too, you can use something like Cockpit [ https://cockpit-project.org/ https://cockpit-project.org/ ] to manage apps running in containers.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
I'm aware that you can jump through a bunch of hoops to make something like that work on Linux, for ever single application individually, but I don't want to jump through a bunch of hoops so I'll just keep using Windows because it works and has much better hardware and software support. Linux desktops have had decades to convince the world that their way of doing things is better and part of the reason they haven't managed it, I think, is because they never listen to criticism and insist that their backwards and ancient unix ways of doing things are better like it's some kind of religion. > I like Android for lots of things, but a model of safe and responsible software distribution it is NOT. Bull. Every application you download from the appstore is sandboxed by default and there is effort put in to verifying that software isn't malicious. It doesn't always work for two reasons: Unlike Linux desktops, Android isn't actively hostile to proprietary non-opensource software, and people actually use it. Linux repositories can, and have, had malware. Check google, it happened to Gentoo in 2010 (interestingly someone also recently put some into Gentoo's GitHub mirror) for instance. That's because it isn't essentially different from any other appstore, except that a whole lot more people use a much broader range of software from Android and iOS appstores, which also have a whole lot more desktop software.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago

I'm aware that you can jump through a bunch of hoops to make something like that work on Linux, for ever single application individually, but I don't want to jump through a bunch of hoops so I'll just keep using Windows because it works and has much better hardware and software support. Linux desktops have had decades to convince the world that their way of doing things is better and part of the reason they haven't managed it, I think, is because they never listen to criticism and insist that their backwards and ancient unix ways of doing things are better like it's some kind of religion. > I like Android for lots of things, but a model of safe and responsible software distribution it is NOT. Bull. Every application you download from the appstore is sandboxed by default and there is effort put in to verifying that software isn't malicious. It doesn't always work for two reasons: Unlike Linux desktops, Android isn't actively hostile to proprietary non-opensource software, and people actually use it. Linux repositories can, and have, had malware. Check google, it happened to Gentoo in 2010 (interestingly someone also recently put some into Gentoo's GitHub mirror) for instance. That's because it isn't essentially different from any other appstore, except that a whole lot more people use a much broader range of software from Android and iOS appstores, which also have a whole lot more desktop software.