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I rather live in the store than having $RANDOM_APP taking over $HOME, even on UNIX based systems.

All my UNIX-like OSes are locked down as much as I can, and yes I do enable SELinux, AppArmor, seccomp, Gatekeeper, SPI and friends.




The best protection against malware / ransomware, hardware failures or stupid accidents of your own doing is provided by regular backups, not by app store restrictions that don't work anyway for the stated purpose.

I do not have SELinux/AppArmor installed, I can't remember the last time I installed an antivirus and it doesn't matter, because I have backups with file versioning going back for a whole year of everything important.

My laptop could burn in a fire right now and I wouldn't lose anything.

But then I don't remember the last time I had problems with malware, because I don't install random software from shady internet sources either.

It's typical of software developers to solve social problems by automation instead of education. It doesn't work well, it never did.




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