Comment by trinsic2
21 hours ago
I'm not understanding the need for this? I cant believe i'm parroting corporate lobbyists, but this seems like a solution in search of a problem.
It sounds more like a way to take freedom away from people. Commercial systems are designed in such a way that offering that convenience is at the expense of control and ownership. Just because people trade freedoms for this level of ease, doesn't make it right.
Taking the control from you is a corporate decision, not the inherent property of compartmentalization.
It's a bit of a two edged sword but it's something we definitely need. Look at project like Qubes and Secureblue that try to implement this. It solves several issues:
Packaging Apps on Linux has been and always will be, a nightmare. Just giving up and sending whole VMs is basically a variant of what docker does.
Permission Management is also quite necessary and Linux Desktop/DBUS is horrible in that regard. There's recently been a post about this[0]. Especially part 5 is just... GNOME Developers being GNOME Developers...
A lot of Apps also open untrusted files and even run untrusted code. Browsers, PDFs, or Excel Macros? God only knows what kind of exploits and hidden software landmines there are.
And last but not least there's also just badly coded apps that can get pwned from remote sources. Think some game running horrible c++ code connecting peer to peer with random clients. All of them could easily buffer overflow some random function and take over all your files.
[0] https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks
Yea im sorry. Im not buying this. I dont need protection from apps on my system. I know you think we need it, but I dont believe we need it. creating security systems like this only complicates the operation of apps.