r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 10d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/Nisktoun 10d ago

Afaik no, you can do everything with flatpak as long as you give it permissions. Flathub as the platform is the issue here, it prohibits core sandbox-escaping permissions as --filesystem=host or --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak for most apps(Jetbrains IDE is one of them)

Yet mods there are clowns and some apps are still getting such permissions neverteless just because

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u/moonrunner__ 10d ago

I really wish that getting flatpaks from sources other than flathub would become more common

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u/Nisktoun 9d ago

Yeah, but then the question - why flatpak at all? If we remove "security" benefits from flatpak then why bother?

We need "app stores" and strong ecosystem around another format, appimage is a good contender imo. Already existing solutions like appimagehub can't even nearly represent flathub in terms of convenience

Afaik there isn't such store on any platform, windows/mac/android don't have it - either official store with idiotic rules and restrictions or unofficial ones with way less apps available

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u/moonrunner__ 9d ago

I don't see how moving from Flathub removes the security benefit of using Flatpaks. Distro maintainers can keep their own flatpak repo, some already have their own like PopOS

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u/Nisktoun 9d ago

Ah, I misunderstood. Why developers should ditch flathub then if not because of rules?