What advantage does a Flatpak have over a distro package?

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  • xdg-desktop-portal

    Desktop integration portal

  • Nope, too many code paths assume that if a sandbox exists, it's either Flatpak or Snaps, and refuse access if it's not either. The XDP is far from being sandbox agnostic. See this discussion for more in-depth details: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/741

  • firejail

    Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox

  • Portals are cross-sandbox. It's not just Flatpak using xdg-desktop-portal; Snap is, too. Firejail would be able to use it too, but they appear to be nonsensically anti-dbus. I don't know why anyone would be anti-dbus in 2016, let alone 2022. It's not just flatpak developers only caring about flatpak; this is an open thing that all sandboxing solutions can benefit from. And portals are even useful outside of the sandbox. If you're on Plasma and you want the Qt file picker on Firefox, it's the portal that does that. That's how you get GTK file pickers in Qt apps, and it would be how you get Qt file pickers in GTK apps, but GTK's stewards did a lot of stupid things WRT how they handle the portal, so you only get that if the GTK app is in a Flatpak. That's not Flatpak's fault or X-D-P's fault; it's entirely GTK's.

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  • com.microsoft.Edge

  • "I'm running FooLinux, I refuse to run Flatpak, and I want to use Fuse, and Citra, and MS Edge, and Minecraft Modpack Manager, and BoilR, and Yuzu! And they must all stay up-to-date! And I will not use Flatpak! They must be packaged specifically for FooLinux!"

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