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by mboto 1274 days ago
I agree with the parent comment. This isn't that niche a requirement and its just one of huge list.

Dismissing people's needs isnt the way to solve this.

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I'd like to see a comparison between, say, how many people want to customize their scroll speed (hard on linux, easy in windows/macos) and some other use cases, like how many people to sandbox and control permissions for individual apps (easy on Linux using Flatseal, hard on window/macos).

Then we can get a better sense of how niche these demands are, and how well these desktop OSes support them

> control permissions for individual apps

Sandboxing is ridiculously bad on all 3, the best being MacOS. But this is one area where desktop OSs are simply way behind mobile ones.