Waste of money.
"For Modal, a robust app sandboxing story is essential to creating a Free Software OS that is competitive with modern mobile platforms."
Why? Focus should be desktop, not mobile.
We have enough mobile stuff that creeped in already.
TETekMol20分钟前
I never understood why a program installed in Flatpak is not just a directory on disk.
When you install something via Flatpak, it still changes data in god-knows-what places on my disk. And the software itself has read/write access to god-knows-where on my disk.
The answer is probably "convenience and efficiency". But I would much prefer a "An application is a directory and by default cannot access anything outside of that directory" approach.
KOkoe12316分钟前
Maybe I am too propagandized, but honestly after going Nix I can’t help but feel like this stuff is fundamentally a waste of time
ZNznpy7分钟前
To be honest i don't see how having flatpack going to help the (european/german) "sovereign tech" initiative.
A waste of money if you ask me.
I think there are much more important issues that should deserve money and attention.
BLblizdiddy8分钟前
Flatpak is great for installing, but as a happy Aurora user, it’s annoying and it breaks things all the time. Every desktop app i use has some broken feature. Sandboxes as another permissions panel suck. Simple browser-like permissions that allow prompted overwrite would be WAY better!
Now i have media organizer programs that deletes my files if i try to write on a networked drive. Games that can’t see the controller. Chat apps that can’t see attachments. Music app that can’t save at all. Good luck accessing any binary and using it in a script.
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Waste of money. "For Modal, a robust app sandboxing story is essential to creating a Free Software OS that is competitive with modern mobile platforms." Why? Focus should be desktop, not mobile. We have enough mobile stuff that creeped in already.
I never understood why a program installed in Flatpak is not just a directory on disk. When you install something via Flatpak, it still changes data in god-knows-what places on my disk. And the software itself has read/write access to god-knows-where on my disk. The answer is probably "convenience and efficiency". But I would much prefer a "An application is a directory and by default cannot access anything outside of that directory" approach.
Maybe I am too propagandized, but honestly after going Nix I can’t help but feel like this stuff is fundamentally a waste of time
To be honest i don't see how having flatpack going to help the (european/german) "sovereign tech" initiative. A waste of money if you ask me. I think there are much more important issues that should deserve money and attention.
Flatpak is great for installing, but as a happy Aurora user, it’s annoying and it breaks things all the time. Every desktop app i use has some broken feature. Sandboxes as another permissions panel suck. Simple browser-like permissions that allow prompted overwrite would be WAY better! Now i have media organizer programs that deletes my files if i try to write on a networked drive. Games that can’t see the controller. Chat apps that can’t see attachments. Music app that can’t save at all. Good luck accessing any binary and using it in a script.