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> Does Linux have mechanisms to guard against that?

Sure. ulimit or cgroups can.



I doubt any of those are applied to games or applications on Linux by default.


If you install games via Flatpak, or via Steam which you've installed via Flatpak, they are indeed isolated in `~/.var/app/*`, IIRC.

But this thread is getting distracted. That's a separate issue, and the applications in question can still pollute all they want within their container.




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