• @adrianmalacoda@lemmy.ml
    11•3 years ago

    See also Let distros do their job (Drew DeVault)

    FWIW I agree, although admittedly I have used flatpak for applications that aren’t available on Guix System. I have shifted towards using a Debian container for that use case, though.

    Between snap and flatpak I think flatpak is the lesser evil.

    • @GenkiFeral@lemmy.ml
      1•2 years ago

      a Debian container

      tell me more about this. i prefer AppImages over anything, but will use a flatpak sometimes. I resent Ubuntu’s past history of spying on users so steer away from snaps or anything else Ubuntu. I know what a container is, but is there one just for Debian? I haven’t tried Docker, but will very soon. I had a VM up for a short while for work - their software only ran on Windows.

  • @MarcellusDrum@lemmy.mlM
    10•3 years ago

    While I personally find Flatpak beneficial and use it on my system, I think having someone with as extreme views as RMS is essential.

  • @jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml
    10•3 years ago

    I exclusively run web browsers in flatpak

    I love that no firefox or chromium process has access to e.g. ~/.ssh or /etc or any number of other things a web browser has no business accessing

    It’s not feasible to read the source code for every application I run now, so anything that makes sandboxing convenient and simple is very much appreciated

  • @0x90@lemmy.ml
    8•3 years ago

    Snap and flatpack are for people that like docker.

    People that don’t understand how things works and just want to use them. Everyone knows that.