Ubuntu’s new app prompting feature

If you haven’t check in with Ubuntu’s app prompting feature for a while, there’s more reason to do so in the latest release. Recent improvements to the snap-focused security feature, which Canonical’s Oliver Calder has shared an update on, aims to “empower users” by letting them grant apps system and hardware access at runtime rather than retrospectively. Android or iOS use similar prompts, showing screen modals asking if you want to “allow Acme App to access the camera” and similar. Ubuntu’s app prompting effort remains an ‘experimental’ feature in 26.04 LTS, but is less naggy and offers greater control over […]

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