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> An App Store is the last place I would go to install a desktop app on either Windows or MacOS

Are macOS app in the app store ensured to have stricter sandboxing? That would be reason enough.

Why is it that only App Store apps are sandboxed? I would like to sandbox most of the apps I’m running. No app needs a blanket slate to access my files. Sure there’s some of the permissions, but they aren’t granular enough.

They can be, but the app itself has to opt in. You can see whether an app is sandboxed in Activity Monitor (it’s a hidden-by-default column named Sandbox).

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