2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine, but our work is not yet done.
  • dukatos
    1·
    9 months ago

    Yes, but the virus will still run and make a damage around.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        2·
        9 months ago

        Wine does not sandbox in any way at all. When run under Wine, a Windows app can do anything your user can. Wine does not (and cannot) stop a Windows app directly making native syscalls, messing with your files, altering your startup scripts, or doing other nasty things.

        You need to use AppArmor, SELinux or some type of virtual machine if you want to properly sandbox Windows apps.

        Note that the winetricks sandbox verb merely removes the desktop integration and Z: drive symlinks and is not a true sandbox. It protects against errors rather than malice. It’s useful for, e.g., keeping games from saving their settings in random subdirectories of your home directory.

        So yes, Bottles Flatpak for the win!