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> And what kind of security do AppImages offer you? None and no one said that it does offer any kind of security. The criticism was entirely unrelated to that.
by matrss 3y ago
> And what kind of security do AppImages offer you?
None and no one said that it does offer any kind of security. The criticism was entirely unrelated to that.
On the other hand, flatpaks sandboxing is also severly limited by the fact that most packages do not make use of it much. In the past the runtimes offered by flatpak were also lacking behind on critical security updates [0]. Did that change in the meantime?
[0] https://flatkill.org/2020/ https://flatkill.org/2020/
- nani8ot 3y agoFlatkill is full of misinformation or no longer true information. There're many posts debunking most of their points [1]. Some parts were true a few years ago but aren't anymore. Edit: They removed many of their examples at some point, so it's no longer as bad of an article. For example if VSCode wouldn't have direct access to the file system, it would be unuseable since it doesn't support portals to ask the user to grant it access to specific folders (by selecting them through the file picker). In the process of packaging an app for flathub, the packager has to provide some reason for why for example full file system access is necessary. The discussion to add or remove permissions are always open [2]. [1] https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2021/02/11/response-to-flatkill-org.html https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2021/02/11/response-to-fla... [2] https://github.com/flathub/net.lutris.Lutris/issues/229 https://github.com/flathub/net.lutris.Lutris/issues/229