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To be honest, to me the selling point is not the sandbox, is the reproducible environment that's common for all distributions, which is a first in the Linux wor
by 1_player 6y ago
To be honest, to me the selling point is not the sandbox, is the reproducible environment that's common for all distributions, which is a first in the Linux world, the sandbox is just the icing on the cake.
The other day I pushed an update to some flatpackaged app, and guess what, it's available to all Linux users. Packaging has become incredibly easier for third parties with these kind of technologies.
- dathinab 6y agoThe problem is the combination of how updates are (often not) done (in time) + no sandbox. I also am a strong believer that the future for sane desktop PC's is that every program (except the most fundamental core services) of a desktop OS should be sandbox by default. With basically no permission to access any local files or communicate with any other program/service. It would need some MAJOR changes, slowly step by step. And I had hoped with snap & flatpack we would be slowly transitioning there. But it doesn't really look that way anymore to be honest. (PS: And it can be done with reasonable UX experience without requiring the user to configure some magic access rules or anything, but it's tricky to get right and it not be fully backward compatible but often changes just need to go into the GUI toolkit (QT, GTK) so it should be possible.