>rm -rf / in one of those scripts also just works I assume In fact it doesn't, I have GNU rm installed. >I've heard way less stories of viruses on Android tha

>rm -rf / in one of those scripts also just works I assume In fact it doesn't, I have GNU rm installed. >I've heard way less stories of viruses on Android than on Windows among my friends. And how often do you here stories of viruses from Linux users? (outside the ones running Wordpress or NPM who carelessly fling executable code from strangers around.) Naive Linux users are protected from this problem but it's done in a very different way: Installing software that the distro maintainers haven't looked at requires a small amount of understanding and thought. They're discouraged from just grabbing executable from the web the way Android and Windows users do and so it's extremely rare that desktop Linux users experience malware (even if you use extremely broad definitions like RMS might. Often maintainers patch out things like telemetry or drop packages containing it altogether) Because of this the kinds of security measures Android has would mostly just get in the way. These tools are all there if you want them. SELinux can sandbox your app and prompt you for permissions. No one does this because it's just not necessary the way most people use typical GNU/Linux distros.