The Flaws of Flatpak
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  • Are you using Flatpaks?
  • Are you trusting Flathub?
  • Do you bother about the sandboxing and security?
  • suprjami@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Every Flatpak vendor

    So who’s that? Flathub and Fedora, the latter of who automate the Flatpak builds from distro packages anyway.

    If you’re using a smaller distro which is not backed by a huge security team then this is probably an advantage of using Flatpak, not a negative.

      • AProfessional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        All Flatpaks are portable. There is no reason to use their repo usually though as Flathub often has more up to date, featureful, or upstream maintained versions instead.

      • suprjami@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes. All Flatpak apps can be used on any distro.

        I’m using the Fedora Flatpak Firefox on Debian, because Fedora’s Flatpak runtime supports Kerberos authentication, the Flathub runtime doesn’t.