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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.

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.