Post #2615692

2025-08-26 05:45 UTC

@Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social that's not true, you do need to raise admin rights to install something not digitally signed on Windows, and admin credentials to install on Linux. On Linux you have Flatpaks that do have permissions in place, and the software runs on a sandbox with only access to what you allow. Windows does not do any of that - hence I'm not gonna even recommend it.

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@Chickerino@tech.lgbt 2025-08-26 05:47

@denzilferreira@techhub.social @Gargron@mastodon.social thats why i said "near" everything, for example on android you need to give permission for the app to be able to access your files outside of the app container, windows by default lets every app access every file that your user has access to, i think thats a bit stinky

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@danielleigh@mastodon.social 2025-08-26 06:15

@denzilferreira@techhub.social @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social on both windows and linux no additional permission is needed to install to a users home directory or simply run without installing. The permission model on both operating systems is more geared towards preventing the system configuration from getting messed up than preventing anything remotely malicious.

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@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk 2025-08-26 06:27

@denzilferreira@techhub.social @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social i don't have to pay to use admin rights, and neither does the developer, though. neither of us need linus's permssion to do it…

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@kgMadee2@mathstodon.xyz 2025-08-26 08:26

@denzilferreira@techhub.social absolutely not true. Nothing short of very advanced security configuration prevents you from running any executable file from anywhere as long as you don't want to write into protected system directories. And nothing prevents you from not doing that, either, so you can have your walled garden "security" if you so wish ...

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@AJSnook2@mastodon.social 2025-08-26 11:29

@denzilferreira@techhub.social @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social I've worked by myself for 30 years. Built all my own computers down the years, to keep me going and still can't do some things because I need permission from the Administrator ! Hey... It's me. Just me. No one else works here. Nope. Need the administrator. I'm old now, not long to go.

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@kitlith@rubber.social 2025-08-27 03:15

@denzilferreira@techhub.social You can still run (potentially malicious) software without installing it. Lots of portable software out there on windows, AppImages or statically compiled binaries on Linux, etc. And you don't need admin permissions to ransom the user's documents, run a cryptominer, change the user's browser settings, adding itself to the user's startup applications, etc. @Chickerino@tech.lgbt @Gargron@mastodon.social

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