Based on opensuse’s docs, it seems to be in permissive state, whereas on my Fedora by default:

$ selinuxenabled  && echo yup
yup
$ getenforce
Enforcing

Not sure if the warm fuzzy feelings I get from this are justified (like what are the actual applied rules on apps? I have no idea), but it is a bit warmer and fuzzier.

So pretty much the same as asking for cup size

I’ve never had to be in the dating game, so I gotta ask: Is there any way this is a good question in a conversation? Is it possible that it’s just an awkward opening, or is it always the equivalent of asking a woman what’s her bra size or whatever?

I’ve been wondering about a similar change, or possibly to Arch. What I’m still wondering about is security: Fedora has Selinux enabled all over the system, and Opensuse and Arch do not. Anyone know what level of risk this mitigates?

Fedora has always used their own. Dpkg was released in 1994, RPM in 1997.

My comment was about Windows and MacOS kinda catching up in 2020s.

I’ve been using Linux (also Arch, several years, happily!) since 1996 and for a long time I’ve wondered why every software I run gets access to every file I have.

Flatpak is one way to fix that.

is available as a package or in the AUR

Oh okay, I see. You don’t perhaps care about programs reading the files of other programs. Well, that’s fine, everybody has their own threat models.

Perhaps the message is changing now, after they have kind of caught up finally. How long did it take, 20 years?

I wish other choices in life were this easy.