• Railcar8095@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That means you expect the software to have a manteiner for every single distro, each with their own hurdles.

    That’s exactly the point flatpaks and appimages are solving, and how it seems things are going moving forward.

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      2 days ago

      They also provide

      • an extra level of sandboxing/isolation for security
      • isolation of the package’s dependencies from your base OS for stability

      Not for all software, but for many office/productivity/internet tools, I ❤️ flatpak

      • tau@infosec.pub
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        2 days ago

        I agree, while they aren’t perfect, using apps like FlatSeal to toggle and remove permissions for Flatpak apps is a lot easier than writing firejail or brwap configs for standard apps.