I thought I’ll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!

I’ll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!

  • starman@programming.dev
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    7 months ago

    On Android, when an app needs something like camera or location or whatever, you have to give it permission. Why isn’t there something like this on Linux desktop? Or at least not by default when you install something through package manager.

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      7 months ago

      Android apps are sandboxed by default while packages on Linux run with the users permission.

      There is already something like this with Flatpak since it also sandboxes every installed program and only grants requested permissions.