> but it doesn't apply to the linux desktop, yet.

Microsoft has VSCode, Skype and Teams on linux, Zoom has a native linux client.

With modern electron apps, often even being able to be updated remotely, you have to start treating more and more software as hostile as well.

That said, even if you’d only have trustful software, you should still sandbox it, as if there’d be an RCE in a chat client you wouldn’t want the attacker to be able to elevate itself to root.