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Awesome Donkey:
I personally try to avoid using Snap or Flatpak (or AppImage) because of the potential security issues with sandboxing, e.g. with Flatpak https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#flatpak

If I was going to choose one, it'd probably be AppImage. But even then if given the choice, I'd avoid all of them.

Hendrik:
A native package would have zero sandboxing and generally always full access to your system.

danrien:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on March 15, 2023, 12:07:43 pm ---I personally try to avoid using Snap or Flatpak (or AppImage) because of the potential security issues with sandboxing, e.g. with Flatpak https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html#flatpak

If I was going to choose one, it'd probably be AppImage. But even then if given the choice, I'd avoid all of them.

--- End quote ---

That's a good read, thanks for sharing it :). I personally like Flatpaks quite a bit, and I use Flatseal to manage permissions: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal. It would be nice if the permissions that are requested would be asked for ahead of time when installing, but in my opinion, it's better to know what permissions are used rather than having no idea what the application has access to at all, which is the state of affairs if you're installing arbitrary binaries (or AppImages), correct?

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