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I think this is one area where Windows has an advantage.

ACLs, Appcontainers with capabilities, etc have been something in the OS for more than a decade.

There are a lot of LPE's in Windows too. Remember that it started out as a single user operating system, it took a long time to get software on board to not always running as admin.

Considering the amount of crazy shit even just user access allows you to do, by design, an LPE is not even really necessary.

Was NT ever single user? I thought they built it with network/multiuser in mind.

(I agree that maybe applications could’ve been built for 3.1/9x and expect a single user, but the os expects multiple).

Linux has effectively same options and more via LSM. I'm not sure why ACL is mentioned here since it exists on Linux too. What advantage do you mean specifically?

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