• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it’s time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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      1 month ago

      Desktop Linux has nearly no app security. So the VM approach is a malware prevention. Android is the most used OS in the world.

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            1 month ago

            You cam teach it expected behaviour of apps…but for .folders I would say that falls under SELinux, which seems to have a learning curve to it

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        But Google would much rather keep all of the data for themselves. If you could actually control what’s happening in your phone, it could interfere with Google’s main business model.