• Are you using Flatpaks?
  • Are you trusting Flathub?
  • Do you bother about the sandboxing and security?
  • Perroboc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I would love to install a browser, and a password manager through flatpaks but they won’t talk with each other.

    I would get an IDE like visual studio code, through flathub, but it doesn’t talk with the system software I want to develop on.

    I would love to get Steam or any other games as flatpaks but having to redownload mesa and other system files just for that uses a lot of space and feels like a second OS.

    So yeah, I agree with you. It’s awesome! But it has some flaws right now (that I’m sure they’re being worked on)

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      1 year ago

      Yes but they solve the cross distro packing problem and that's neat. The GNOME Software integration is also amazing, those few times when you see that desktop Linux actually can do it. :P

      I just hope for better and easier tools to mange the security / process communication. For me flatpaks are more about finally having a fast and decent way of packing stuff across distros with dependencies than a sandbox / security feature.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not against them, at all. I use them extensively. I just wish I could use them for everything!