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For now, flatpack and snap sandboxes perf hit are quite significant, and devs don't manage the permissions well so you often end up with software that can't ope
by BiteCode_dev 5y ago
For now, flatpack and snap sandboxes perf hit are quite significant, and devs don't manage the permissions well so you often end up with software that can't open the files you want.
When you fire and electron app from a sandbox, it's a hog riding a slug, then you try to open your files only to find yourself in a temp folder or chrooted to a config subdir.
It think those tech can bring a lot, but there is still work to do.
- TOMDM 5y agoSnap permissions are a mess. The fact that I have to give Remmina each of its permissions one at a time after installing with snap is silly.
- teddyfrozevelt 5y agoFlatpak doesn't hurt performance any worse than something like Docker. It's Snap that's slower since they keep the entire app compressed on disk. Permissions are also up to the app developer in the case of Flatpak so if they don't use portals like they're supposed to then they can just allow the app to access the whole host filesystem. You can change this easily too through your terminal or an app like Flatseal.