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by ragequitta
1065 days ago
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I fully agree with using Qubes, but I also think for most people in most cases that's akin to putting a bank vault door on the front of your house. I guess the question I would ask is: gun to your head you have a choice between running a random Setup.exe in Windows, a .sh/.deb/.rpm in linux, or a Flatpak. Which one are you choosing? 10/10 times I'm choosing the Flatpak myself. It might not be perfect, but it does seem better than most alternatives everyone uses all day every day. |
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If we are talking about a device in which you do banking, shopping, manage sensitive or work data, etc. then I think security should be a priority. For more casual use, I agree Qubes would be overkill.
> Which one are you choosing?
I'd rather execute Setup.exe inside Windows Sandbox or denying UAC prompts, or a random macOS binary (provided SIP is not disabled) than a Flatpak. To be clear, I think Flatpak is an improvement, I'm glad it exists and I hope it continues evolving. But in my opinion, the Linux desktop still has a long way to catch up to Windows and macOS on security.