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minus-squareFireWire400@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoMost likely not, most malware still exclusively targets Windows
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago Most likely not, most malware still exclusively target Windows Always wondered how the internals of Proton works, as far as what part of the Linux OS does it expose to its internal Windows sandbox. Thanks for the reply/thoughts.
minus-square𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏linkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoIIRC each game is treated as a separate whole windows installation, unless you’ve set it up otherwise manually
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year ago you’ve set it up otherwise manually No I don’t. For Steam games I just let Steam do the install/setup. For non-Steam games I use Bottles, and I use a different Bottles container/session for each game.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoFor the person who downvoted me, I wouldn’t mind an elaboration/education? Was it downvoted because the Linux internals are not exposed to the running app from inside the Proton Windows container?
minus-squareFizz@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoI just stumbled upon this post and I know its old as fuck but Proton doesnt sandbox. Windows syscalls will be converted to linux sys calls and can still be dangerous.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoAppreciate the answer, thanks. Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Most likely not, most malware still exclusively targets Windows
Always wondered how the internals of Proton works, as far as what part of the Linux OS does it expose to its internal Windows sandbox.
Thanks for the reply/thoughts.
IIRC each game is treated as a separate whole windows installation, unless you’ve set it up otherwise manually
No I don’t.
For Steam games I just let Steam do the install/setup.
For non-Steam games I use Bottles, and I use a different Bottles container/session for each game.
For the person who downvoted me, I wouldn’t mind an elaboration/education?
Was it downvoted because the Linux internals are not exposed to the running app from inside the Proton Windows container?
I just stumbled upon this post and I know its old as fuck but Proton doesnt sandbox. Windows syscalls will be converted to linux sys calls and can still be dangerous.
Appreciate the answer, thanks.
Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)