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The first thing Linux needs to work on is its permissions system. Traditionally, in Unix, the user is not trusted but the applications are trusted. Nowadays, that's not true anymore. Our smartphones have better permissions systems than our PCs.
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Absolutely not. Smart phone permission model is for when you want to run what is basically malware. Linux desktop permission model is for running software that respects the user.

You don't always know beforehand if the software will respect the user.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49675902




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