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I don't understand why people think this is a good idea to do at all. Yes it makes updates easier. But each software doing that has to run with the privileges t
by funcDropShadow 3y ago
I don't understand why people think this is a good idea to do at all. Yes it makes updates easier. But each software doing that has to run with the privileges to update itself. Which is in my book a big security downside. Separating rights to install, update, and remove software from the right to run and use it should be complete separate.
I admit this is not very nice for private Windows users. But this is one of the strength of Linux distributions.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y ago> But each software doing that has to run with the privileges to update itself. Which is in my book a big security downside. But it does not have to run with those privileges under normal circumstances. It's easy enough to elevate privileges just for the update step.
- ilyt 3y agoBecause Windows don't have decent package management system. Linux way of "add a repo, upgrade every package from either system or app-own repo" is strictly superior but windows just doesn't have it (and thanks to that there is multi-billion dollar cottage industry to fill those holes)
- vladvasiliu 3y agoThey're starting to get there with winget. It's not as comfortable as an actual linux package manager, but it seems to be on the right track.