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	by tormeh 32 days ago
	If it has the "security" architecture of Linux (it's really more of a multi-tenant architecture) then that's a complete deal breaker. Wouldn't want it if it was 1000x faster/betterer than Android. Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software, and you're gonna want to do that.

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>Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software, and you're gonna want to do that.

So you're saying people should only use walled garden closed source OSes? Sounds like tyranny to me.

1) No one is saying that. As another commenter mentioned, Android is open source.

2) The point still stands, desktop operating systems like Windows and desktop Linux distributions are much less secure than Android or iOS. Read https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-insecurities/

No? AOSP is open source.

AOSP doesn't run on any phone without a ton of proprietary blobs.

> Our desktop OSes are just incompatible with running untrusted software

You should have a look at https://qubes-os.org