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How do you feel about Flatpak? Do you like having universal packages separated from the operating system, or do you regret how much space they take? (piefed.zip)

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I was reading a bit about it recently, seems like there two positions are valid, curious to see what people here think.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I worked security while we created and shipped an enterprise linux distro and maintained AT&T Unix.

Flatpaks, even at their best, break Single Source of Truth for installed state. This alone should invalidate them, but they also don't validate contents against a signed manifest like proper packages will, and so the supply-chain exploits are a huge risk.

But if all your friends do risky things and you need to join them, then you be you.