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Absolutely not unless it's as sandboxed as the web (which even the web isn't sandboxed that well).
Working with software has only made me not trust software (that's not open source.)
Why we're giving any random software full user level access in 2026 is beyond me.
Your word in the Linux communities' hardliners ears. The consistent rejection of isolation concepts seen in Flatpak or Snap by some people go completely beyond me.