flatpak

Would you consider a system less secure if the filesystem, starting with /, is owned by the same (non-root) user that owns the processes running in that OS? Probably. But, would you consider the system within a namespace sandbox, such as the one employed by flatpak, to be much less secure if...

OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 6.1.8-zen1-1-zen, DE: Plasma w/wayland, CPU: i5 10400, GPU: RX 550 OC; extra/xf86-video-amdgpu 22.0.0-1 | extra/vulkan-radeon 22.3.3-3 I do not have multilib repository enable and I have not even tried to install it through pacman. Steam —flatpak— worked yesterday. System...

Let me lay some foundations.. I can only speak for myself, but the reason I use Linux is because I don't want anything to do with Microsoft or Apple. I also use a DeGoogled Android phone - and I am constantly trying and playing around with Linux phones. I use a VPN, Firefox (recently dumped...

I've recently purged my Lubuntu of all the snaps I had installed, and the snapd/etc stuff that allows any snaps to run. It seems the snap versions of applications are bloated both in terms of installation size and RAM use. Are Flatpaks and AppImages considered to be similar to Snap packages...