Comment by realusername
16 hours ago
> as long as you don't grant dangerous permissions and your kernel is not outdated
There's like 2 or maybe 3 phone models in the world without an outdated kernel in Android.
And then sure, Android and iOS sandboxing is better but in the same time, the quality of the apps and the vetting is 100x worse than your average Linux distribution so I'm not sure that makes up the difference.
In Linux there is no vetting. Does anyone verify proprietary AI agents like Claude Code? Software like VS Code? Games? They are distributed through random sites and cannot even be banned.
You could restrict yourself to the official repositories, but there is a limited selection of software. There are no closed-source software, like audio editing plugins, graphic editors, games, AI agents and so on. Even open-source software is often missing in official repositories.
There's vetting, apps like Facebook or Candy Crush would never past the most basic repository scrutiny if you made it Linux native and would never be included anywhere, even if they were made open source.
You can constrast that with the Play Store where just searching for ChatGPT brings you a fake app on top (and before you bring the appstore, it was the same there until they banned the keyword after some bad press)
And yeah it's up to you if you install something outside of repositories, it's your computer.
The point is, for many use cases you need to install third-party software, including closed-source software, and I want an OS to be able to run it safely. That's the purpose of OS - allow running software.
In reality, third-party software like Docker or Node.JS typically suggests that you sudo-curl-bash the script from the Internet. How worse could it be.