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Linux suffers from a lot of unaddressed security problems. (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not all distros ship SELinux and the ones that do, don't actually configure it securely.
New users are expected to keep copying and pasting commands from their browsers to their terminal which compromises some Linux security defenses.
KDE, GNOME and Sway are the only functional Desktop Environments/Window Managers that support Wayland all, while the Other DEs are not even close to shipping with Wayland.
Most if not all of the Linux Distros in 2025 ship with Grub bootloader, which suffers from a lot of problems, instead of using the bootloaders that does not support BIOS and will improve the reliability of booting and provide a more stable experience.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Is SELinux really that important for the average desktop user? I mean we have a lot of concepts like different system user accounts which run services, namespaces...

And I feel we'd need more sandboxing and a permission system for desktop apps so they have to ask before reading your Documents directory and access the webcam. That'd do way more than SELinux as is.... And we kind of have none of that to begin with. (...except software installed as Flatpaks, to some degree.)