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We can call it "qubes" or "systemd with cgroups + other features" or "nixos" or "GuixSD"

Or OpenBSD with its pledge stuff and jail awesomeness

Or fedora with SELinux and default policies.

Believe me, distros are trying to do this, and honestly they're doing a pretty okay job. The kernel could help a bit more (and is starting to with namespacing)



It's great that some open-sources are leading the way.

But Mac/Win are 99% of consumer desktops, so it's up to them to make the change.




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