Is there a downside to Flatpak?
Is there a downside to Flatpak?
Basically title.
I’m wondering if a package manager like flatpak comes with any drawback or negatives. Since it just works on basically any distro. Why isn’t this just the default? It seems very convenient.
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Endlessly reading on social media that is not a good from Linux "gurus". LOL
It's been great for me, but I wish it had a official gui for permissions management.
Are you aware of flatseal?
If you are, is there an issue with using it for you?
Flatseal is good, just not official.
I'm not sure why/if that matters honestly, aside from discoverability I guess.
It's as official as it gets. The XDG team provides the underlying infrastructure, and the community provides the tools.
I wish there was an option for an android style system where, when an application wants to use a permission for the first time, you get a pop up asking you to grant that permission.
Or, more generally, just some way to ensure that (a) a flatpak isn't granted the permissions it wants automatically and (b) I can then manually grant those permissions as conveniently as possible