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Whoa. So why didn’t the Windows store work? Some kind of trusted environment thing?

• netsharc 4y ago
  There are some hints in this document, like the OS needing to lock down installed app files: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/desktop-to-uwp-behind-the-scenes https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/deskt... Or this issue: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/issues/3359 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs/issues/33...
• csdvrx 4y ago
  In Linux terms, think about what would happen if you tried to use ACL (or fsattr or whatever non standard stuff) on a filesystem not supporting ACL: it would throw weird errors, and you may not properly handle them if you expected all filesystems to support ACLs.
  • nailer 4y ago
    User land generally doesn’t care about file system specifics. Even in your ACL, example, opening a file would succeed or fail. I suspect this is much more likely to be a secure environment issue. Windows store wants to prevent piracy, there is no way the environment can be trusted because the boot loader wasn’t signed by Microsoft, and therefore may be modified to help people pirate software.
    • brucethemoose2 4y ago
      Even if you dont boot with btrfs, the store doesn't even recognize a btrfs partition as a valid drive for apps.