Joke's on them. I just put games in my library and never install them.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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"Valve removes free game"
What? Why are they removing free games??? Oooooh, they must want you to pick the paid games....
"after players discover it contains malware that steals your data"
Oh. Well that's a very good reason to remove it. Thanks Valve!
to be devils advocate, that is pretty scary.
They had to do one thing...
But it was a "feature"
the simple solution would be to put every game into a sandbox by default
Those are my favourite type of game.
/s
Every program ideally should be in a sandbox and if it wants permission to access something it should have to ask for it.
Is that what proton does on Linux?
No, that's just to make Windows programs/games run on Linux. But you can e.g. use the Flatpack version of Steam to Sandbox Steam and its games (https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html)
Kind of like Android or iOS.
Flatpak tries to accomplish this on Desktop, and it works, but isn't as comprehensive as something like Android or iOS.
On the extreme side, there is QubesOS, which runs every app in a dedicated virtual machine, including the networking stack.
Flatpak also doesn't ask for permissions. If an app requires a new one does it just add it upon update?
I believe so.
I think either Bazaar or GNOME software center does tell you if an app asks for more permissions, I forgot which one though
GNOME Software. That's not what I'm concerned about though.
IIRC Discover on KDE also tells you on the update list. But only somewhere in the list of updates - theres no explicit dialog warning you of changes/new permissions
And compaines wonder why we have trust issues.
Once wasm 64 bit deploys more, we should migrate as much as possible to it.
That at least will make it harder to access random files and keys from disk due to the sandboxing.
Sandbox escapes are still possible, but that’s an additional level of control we can enforce.