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Docker is considering a flatpak. Upvote here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/593 https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/593 flatpak is like a cross

Docker is considering a flatpak. Upvote here: https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/593 https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/593 flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works. some of the apps are buggy at the fringes, but i've been opening issues to smooth them out. some of the apps like VS Code claim to be from microsoft, but are... unofficial?

NekkoDroid 3y ago
> some of the apps like VS Code claim to be from microsoft, but are... unofficial? Unless they have a verified checkmark next to the company/owner of the project it will be a 3rd party package of it. The name is mainly intended as a "This is from X" instead of "This is packaged by X" (unless you actually see the verified badge)
xcrunner529 3y ago
I so far have been disappointed because some of the main things I I shall and had are a browser and password manager and they can’t talk to each other and flatpak refuses to fix it.
- 4oo4 3y ago
  This is by design iirc, as a consequence of sandboxing. However there is an easy workaround, which is redirecting your browser profile back to the host with flatpak override/flatseal. I don't need this anymore for Bitwarden but I did this for a long time with Firefox + Enpass.
  - xcrunner529 3y ago
    So is the iPhone and they provided ways to make it work. It’s a use case that is needed so they should be trying to find a (secure) way to do it.
    - Spivak 3y ago
      https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655 https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655
      - starkparker 3y ago
        No movement on the associated PR since November?
different_base 3y ago
> flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good idea when designing a cross platform packaging format. Flatpak got everything right from it's initial design. Multiple repositories, Sandboxing that actually works in any Linux distro, OSTree to reduce disk space usage etc.

NekkoDroid 3y ago

> some of the apps like VS Code claim to be from microsoft, but are... unofficial? Unless they have a verified checkmark next to the company/owner of the project it will be a 3rd party package of it. The name is mainly intended as a "This is from X" instead of "This is packaged by X" (unless you actually see the verified badge)

xcrunner529 3y ago

I so far have been disappointed because some of the main things I I shall and had are a browser and password manager and they can’t talk to each other and flatpak refuses to fix it.

4oo4 3y ago
This is by design iirc, as a consequence of sandboxing. However there is an easy workaround, which is redirecting your browser profile back to the host with flatpak override/flatseal. I don't need this anymore for Bitwarden but I did this for a long time with Firefox + Enpass.
- xcrunner529 3y ago
  So is the iPhone and they provided ways to make it work. It’s a use case that is needed so they should be trying to find a (secure) way to do it.
  - Spivak 3y ago
    https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655 https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/655
    - starkparker 3y ago
      No movement on the associated PR since November?

different_base 3y ago

> flatpak is like a cross-distro snap that actually works You are right. Besides proprietary app store, Snap lacks even basic sandboxing in non-Debian based distros. I can't believe that Canonical engineers thought this was a good idea when designing a cross platform packaging format. Flatpak got everything right from it's initial design. Multiple repositories, Sandboxing that actually works in any Linux distro, OSTree to reduce disk space usage etc.