Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP

Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by lostmsu on Monday May 31, 2021 @02:41AM (#27340955)

UWP is fine and in fact should be preferred for apps targeted at content consumption. E.g. you want your IM, Facebook app, media player, all the video games to be UWP so that you would know the companies making these apps are not stealing your data and not making your system too vulnerable to RCE attacks.

This also applies for any professional apps that do not require extensive access to the file system.

For the rest of the stuff like system tools, arbitrary file editors, user interface utilities you need to run in full trust UWP is currently not suitable.

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Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by iggldiggl on Monday May 31, 2021 @07:41AM (#27342995)

> media player

Media players are already a somewhat iffy proposition because playlists, subtitles or multi-part (video) files for example are the kind of multi-file file formats that don't work well with heavily sandboxed file access because of the implicit relationships between separate files that the OS doesn't know anything about.

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Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by lostmsu on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:27PM (#27347361)

Usually they can be restricted to specific folders, e.g. music, video, photos.

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Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by Koiwai on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:20AM (#27341205)

Those should be web apps.

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Re:Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP by lostmsu on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @07:57PM (#27363014)

Only a few of them can be web apps. Web is too restricted.

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