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You're missing one major benefit of Flatpak: With on small build manifest and by using flathub you can ship your application to a couple dozen distributions. E
by wander_homer 5y ago
You're missing one major benefit of Flatpak: With on small build manifest and by using flathub you can ship your application to a couple dozen distributions.
Everything else is just more work for application developers and distributors won't include every application in their repositories.
- smoldesu 5y ago> I understand that sandboxing can make development marginally easier I don't think I missed it, did I? I mean, I understand that sandboxing your software will make it run on every platform, but so will shipping a VM with your program preinstalled. At some point we just have to cut our losses and pick a platform that Just Works.
- wander_homer 5y ago> I don't think I missed it, did I? You were talking about sandboxing, I was talking about building and distributing software. Sandboxing is an optional thing flatpak provides at runtime, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to make development or distribution easier. It seems we're just talking about different things when we say "sandboxing". > I mean, I understand that sandboxing your software will make it run on every platform, but so will shipping a VM with your program preinstalled. Do you know of a VM solution which is as easy to use for developers and users, offers the same or better platform integration and has little to no runtime overhead?