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On a personal computer, you are giving a whole lot of trust to anything you run un-sandboxed as your normal user - it will likely have access to your most inter
by takluyver 6y ago
On a personal computer, you are giving a whole lot of trust to anything you run un-sandboxed as your normal user - it will likely have access to your most interesting files, browser cookies, maybe saved passwords. XKCD covered it years back: https://xkcd.com/1200/ https://xkcd.com/1200/
This brings up another drawback of deb/rpm packaging, though: you need root access to install anything. I'm not sure about Snap, but Flatpaks can be installed and used by an individual user.
- simosx 6y agoIf you first run snap login then you can install snaps without "sudo". I suppose it is the same process with flatpaks.
- takluyver 6y agoGood to know. Flatpak doesn't have a separate step, but there's a --user option for the install command.
- dTal 6y agoNot to mention that 99% of desktop Linux installs are trivially pwnable with: echo 'alias sudo="sudo touch /evil && sudo' >> ~/.bashrc