Fourteen pages of comments within a day of posting in Phoronix? Grab your popcorn guys 🍿

IMO Flatpak is the best of them all. I don’t want to bother with repo packages that have complete and unnecessary access to my system. Flatpak neatly installs an app and isolates it, and if I no longer want it I can just easily click “Uninstall” on my Settings app without it leaving a mess or any trace behind, unlike repo packages that manage to screw something as simple as uninstalling itself.

All of the points of the previous comment are actually valid. Plus, immutable distros are much safer and easier to tinker with than traditional mutable distros. For example, an extremely specialized Arch setup would be much more stable and easier to jumpstart if it was a personalized Universal Blue image, even all your Flatpaks can be declared and installed at setup.

binex-dsk is now shadowbanned on GitHub

Evil Wayland is making their app crash

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Sorry for the Windows emojis lol, I’m on a computer shop as I post this on lunch break

On much more recent driver versions Wayland support has been further improved. I suggest going with Fedora Silverblue since RPM Fusion is pretty quick to roll out new driver versions.

This is not nice.

I’ve been under scrutiny, yeah oh yeah, you handle it beautifully, yeah oh yeah, all this shit is new to me

Here in my country, it’s not hard to find male Swifties your age. Not really surprising since we’re the first country in 2022 to have Cruel Summer back in our charts, several months before it went #1 in USA.

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Most storage space viewers get confused by Flatpak’s heavily deduplicated and compressed files, leading to them reporting way larger space than what’s actually occupied on the hard drive.

Well, no matter how I trust my photo editing app, it has no business accessing my thesis documents. Proper filesystem sandboxing does security properly.

The file picker API is there to allow apps to access and save files with the user’s consent, while bot having any filesystem access. So a properly sandboxed app would be able to open, edit, and save files wherever the user wants, while not having access to any other irrelevant files, such as your .bashrc or memes folder.

As I mentioned in my previous comment, they use the portals API to access and save files.

An app should not be able to access stuff the user did not consent to letting access.

As well as FOSS too. Sandboxing is a security standard that should be followed by every software how open their code may be.

This could well be an advanced video editor or an office suite if they take full advantage of the portals API without losing any functionality. Well, they can have the network permission, it would still be safe anyway.