I'm really not a fan of flatpaks or snaps but I do think making vital directories off limits is a good idea.
KDE Linux's base system will be immutable, meaning that nothing will be able to change critical parts of the system, such as the /etc, /usr, and /bin, directories. User applications will be installed via self-contained packages, such as Flatpaks and Snaps.
I'm really not a fan of flatpaks or snaps but I do think making vital directories off limits is a good idea.
Having anything that counts as "system" be difficult for anything to mess up does seem like a no-brainer. The lines around what constitutes "system" are blurry of course, but disagreements on...
Having anything that counts as "system" be difficult for anything to mess up does seem like a no-brainer. The lines around what constitutes "system" are blurry of course, but disagreements on things like that are why different distributions exist.
Agree on not being a fan of flatpaks or snaps. A simple application bundle, like macOS uses (a folder containing binary and the libraries and resources it depends on that gets special treatment from the OS) seems sufficient from my point of view and doesn't incur any performance hit, but then again I'm not maintaining an operating system so maybe there's something I'm missing.
I'm really not a fan of flatpaks or snaps but I do think making vital directories off limits is a good idea.
Having anything that counts as "system" be difficult for anything to mess up does seem like a no-brainer. The lines around what constitutes "system" are blurry of course, but disagreements on things like that are why different distributions exist.
Agree on not being a fan of flatpaks or snaps. A simple application bundle, like macOS uses (a folder containing binary and the libraries and resources it depends on that gets special treatment from the OS) seems sufficient from my point of view and doesn't incur any performance hit, but then again I'm not maintaining an operating system so maybe there's something I'm missing.