• FG_3479@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It protects against system breakage and malware because the core of the OS is sealed and updates can only fully complete or fully fail, you can’t have a half-uodated system like Ubuntu would be if you unplugged the PC half way through.

    And because your apps and commandline tools are sandboxed with Flatpak and toolbox/distrobox so malware getting in through one doesn’t compromise the whole system.

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      21 hours ago

      So does iOS, but it’s ‘bad’ to be walled garden there, but ‘good’ to be walled garden here.

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        15 hours ago

        iOS is a walled garden because they do everything they can to block third party app stores, and the “activation” process allows Apple to remotely brick your phone at any time. Immutable Linux distros don’t have these issues.