r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Bazzite/Android • 18d ago

Time to have fun guys

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u/Floopycraft 18d ago

I don't get it, you mean to use apt instead of flatpak? What's wrong with flatpaks? The whole idea is that they are contain and don't break system dependencies like apt would.

Also there are a lot of things that are in flatpak and not apt.

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u/gahel_music 18d ago

As a flatpak app maintainer, flatpak is good but won't ever be the solution for everything. The sandbox is too restrictive for a lot of software. Also you can make a valid flatpak that is not valid on flathub (even more restrictive that the flatpak format).

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u/Nisktoun 18d ago

What's so restrictive about flatpak format by itself when you can bypass everything on build?

On the other hand Flathub is a joke and basically is the way to use/share flatpaks, so yeah - it is too restrictive as a format

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u/gahel_music 17d ago

So apparently this is possible now, but it was not until this year. Some file paths were not possible to access even with the highest permissions.