[giancarlostoro]

> The response was that if access to %Appdata% is completely blocked Windows won't work anymore.

Yikes. I really wish that instead of Microsoft wasting resources on telemetry nonsense, they would focus on optimizing their OS and modernizing some of these blatant security issues.

I guess it wont happen until we have another wave of ransomware malware or something of the sort.

[iudqnolq]

That's like saying Linux doesn't have sandboxed apps because chmod -R 000 /var will break your system. Technically sort of right, but not a useful or interesting observation.

[giancarlostoro]

The difference being Windows is a much higher target for abuse since its the most commonly used OS for Desktop, somewhere as high as 70% marketshare or higher, depending on where you get those numbers from. It's also used a lot in corporate environments as well. Linux usage of /var/ and /etc/ differs depending on various factors too... Developers / distro maintainers put files in different places.