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Glacial page bedrock of an OS with optional sandboxed more-up-to-date userspace packages and runtimes that can be layered on top of the host system was the drea
by krferriter 1y ago
Glacial page bedrock of an OS with optional sandboxed more-up-to-date userspace packages and runtimes that can be layered on top of the host system was the dream of flatpak/snap/appimage, right?
- bandrami 1y agoYes, though that comes with its own headaches since the data those sandboxed applications are supposed to touch are the only actually valuable data on my computer. (How many versions of OpenSSL are currently running on my Silverblue system? I literally couldn't tell you.) My spreadsheet is only vouched for by some random dude on Flathub and it can steal all my financial information. But at least it can't add a printer, or delete a system file that I can freely download from the Internet at any time.
- rlpb 1y agoThis a decent observation, but I would add that some other Flatpak app that you run might be correctly sandboxed from accessing your financial information, and this is the real benefit of such a system.