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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by fgonzag on Sunday November 15, 2020 @06:53PM (#25106192)
Limited sandboxing? Ever heard of containers?
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by throwaways885 on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:05PM (#25106295)
What mainstream user software is distributed as a container? Last time I checked it's all just endless deb files.
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by foxrider on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:33PM (#25106524)
You should check again - Ubuntu applications are now being distributed via Snaps that everyone hates, they are sandboxed tho. For other distributions you have Flatpak that is also sandboxed.
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Re:Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014) by galgalesh on Sunday November 15, 2020 @07:32PM (#25106508)
Spotify, Blender, Chromium, Firefox.. The situation has improved immensely over the last 4 years.
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