Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!
I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!
I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!
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On Android, when an app needs something like camera or location or whatever, you have to give it permission. Why isn't there something like this on Linux desktop? Or at least not by default when you install something through package manager.
Android apps are sandboxed by default while packages on Linux run with the users permission.
There is already something like this with Flatpak since it also sandboxes every installed program and only grants requested permissions.
Because it requires a very specific framework to be built from the ground up, and FDO doesn't specify these. A lot of breakage would happen if were to shoehorn such changes into Linux suddenly. Android has many layers of security that they're fundamentally different than that of the unix philosophy. That's why Android, even if it's based on Linux, it's not really considered "a distro".
Sandboxing wasn't considered during development of Linux. But recent development incorporates this practice and can be found for example in flatpaks.
Flatpaks get permission though XDG-portals. The difference is there are usually no popups