Snap or Flatpak?

hhh · 2022-11-22 08:19:18

^ Huh, pretty sure that's the exact same error I get when running the Oomox flatpak and exporting either Arc or Materia themes. So an app is sandboxed in flatpak but flatpak still needs access to system resources, so it's not really sandboxed? Color me confused.

DeepDayze · 2022-11-22 14:04:27

hhh wrote:

^ Huh, pretty sure that's the exact same error I get when running the Oomox flatpak and exporting either Arc or Materia themes. So an app is sandboxed in flatpak but flatpak still needs access to system resources, so it's not really sandboxed? Color me confused.

I believe the flatseal app is what you can use to give appropriate permissions to flatpaks to allow/deny access to the underlying system resources such as your home folder and any system areas as desired.

THX1138 · 2023-03-14 13:05:21

Dunno when the last time I logged in at bunsenlabs was, but after hopping around a few distros, mainly to discover for myself if systemd was all that bad and what the benefits of some other init system was. I am definitely back to see what life without, snap/flatpack etc, is like. somehow I started my hop with Void and ended with Mint after a dozen or so other distros. hahahahaha. I knew I would be back. Must have been a year or 3

taberacci · 2023-03-31 05:09:19

"Snap or Flatpak?"

Neither. But I do use AppImages, might not be much better but it's the choice I've made. I update on my own terms, not when "the outside" wants. However this is only for choice software such as Mozilla's browser. (Actually BL Beryllium is the only installation I have where I'm running Firefox-ESR 64-bit, but it's supposed to be for emergency purposes...)

I have installed only one Flatpak successfully: Cowsay. Don't laugh, it was a large pill. Noticed a lot of Flatpaks have GNOME developers platform which wants many MiB installed on hard disk and it gets more serious with different versions of GNOME.

I have also installed Bottles, I have to admit on Nutyx but it remained hung up setting up for two hours. Nope. Didn't work neither when I tried it last year on Fedora 35 and it was "native" and pre-installed...

"snapd" I wouldn't come near that with all the space in the Atlantic Ocean that I'm given. Liking Kubuntu LTS so much I'm not even taking it online anymore. People proposing for Snaps supported on Arch, just LOL. Noticed the AUR package hasn't been maintained in a month but somebody would do something about it soon.

AppImages could be a pain of their own, could require additional dependencies installed. Also I don't know how they managed to cram the fat hog of Audacity, this is a sad application that needs to be rewritten because the menus could fail and other business they never fixed since the first version. However, a few others like Inkscape and LMMS have been a good point. Inkscape is still fairly unstable for me, however, in any way it's installed.

taberacci · 2023-05-01 02:07:44

I don't get neither why people want Pamac on an Arch-based distro not Manjaro. To install from the AUR, handle Flatpak/Snaps and everything else. (roll eyes) Welcome out of Windows!

I went to check out the "Talos" release of Manjaro with XFCE. One of the first things I did was deinstall Pamac completely. Possible to do it with that D.E. but not with KDE... I have an older Manjaro install with KDE that I don't know what to do with because it's bloated. Although I'm running no AppImages there, not even Firefox (settled for "native" version) and no Flatpaks whatsoever.

I'm sorry for going O.T. a bit here but it's beginning to annoy me how people request stuff because they want to avoid the terminal so much, they don't care if they make a security hassle of themselves and then it breaks and blame it on the distro and developers, never on themselves.

LOL the other day I downloaded an AppImage which was almost 1GB in size, that for "FreeCAD". Haven't fired it up yet.

THX1138 · 2023-05-04 13:50:36

dolly wrote:

snap or flatpak

Personally I would prefer windows 11(tm)
At least they have better antivirus tools to deal with
errant software that can be introduced by lazy methods
of deployment

Colonel Panic · 2023-06-04 19:02:19

This could be a sign of things to come. The Red Hat Display Systems Team have now announced that they are going to be phasing out the packaging of LibreOffice for Red Hat in the near future and users will be expected to move to Flatpak if they want to continue using LibreOffice;

https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resou … tory=15832

https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/org.libr … ibreOffice

[Edit: needless to say, this applies to Fedora as well.]

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2023-06-05 09:30:35)

or1o9 · 2023-06-05 03:29:33

THX1138 wrote:

Personally I would prefer windows 11(tm)
At least they have better antivirus tools to deal with
errant software that can be introduced by lazy methods
of deployment

Can you elaborate?

Seems that the containerized future is coming towards us.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/05/imm … tu-desktop

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