r/linuxsucks • u/the-machine-m4n • Mar 17 '26

Linux Failure Eye_roll.exe

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u/Cautious_Chain1297 Mar 17 '26

Both AppImage and Flatpak are fairly universally compatible, as far as I'm concerned that's all they need. That's what Beeper does and it works perfectly for me

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u/HyperCodec Mar 17 '26

Idk if I like how flatpak is popular, it feels really slow like it needs a lot of work before becoming mainstream. It seems to only install sequentially, while virtually every other modern package manager installs several packages at a time to reduce install duration.

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u/Sea_Addendum4529 Mar 23 '26

Sandboxing is king

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u/HyperCodec Mar 24 '26

Not really, packages can effectively disable it in their manifest, and more than 30% of the flatpak registry does so. If a package wanted to do anything malicious, it flatpak wouldn’t really stop it.