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41·1 year agorelatively weak sandboxing
because xorg exists, not because flatpak can’t do sandboxing well
dependencies get bundled a few times
only if there’s a need to do so. identical runtimes are shared
depends on the application developer to be available to do things like supply chain attacks
yeah as if a rogue package maintainer can’t do the same
Problem is, for any somewhat big project (like discord) updating Electron without something breaking is a nightmarishly complex venture as Electron doesn’t seem to care about backwards compatibility.
That’s the kernel apis. Those have to be stable. Userland always changes much faster.
I’m by no means a purest but I’ve found WSL… More annoying than using Linux as is. Network oddities, random programs not functioning and just generally subpar as is.
No, not really. Most image formats produce completely unreadable jumbo only meant to be parsed with clever maths.
ironically enough i think microsoft (at least until very recently) has had a very lenient stance on piracy exactly because of this
piracy is the key to the consumer market in developing countries, consumer market is the key to enterprise (where the actual money lies)
most linux distros from android to alpine can be and often are configured to limit the amount of forks a user can spawn