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I say this as someone who has used Unix, MacOS and Linux for most of his long life: not being able to write to /bin and other system directories is a feature and I really don’t understand how anybody in 2023 could see it otherwise.

Freedom does not just imply the ability to do the things you want, but also the ability to avoid the things you don’t.




Why 2023 writing to /bin was always a bad idea in 1994 when I first used Unix and would have been so even earlier.


You can just mount it readonly.


Yes which as I have said done since the early 1990s




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