An exciting development for this Linux app sandboxing and distribution tech. This would also help improve Google Chrome/Chromium support outside the likes of RPM and Debian based distributions with a cleaner packaging experience.

That’s what he said.

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 hours ago

    I’d be more impressed if they stopped bundling random crap. It’s their unwillingness to use upstream’s dependencies and toolchains that makes Chromium a nightmare to package on Gentoo, and flatpaks are not going to fix that. They bundle clang, rust, and so many additional libraries that the “must keep bundled version to prevent breakage” list is almost 300 items long. This is not the correct way to ensure reproducibility, guys.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Flatpak does block userns. Apps on Android don’t get unprivileged user namespaces, and Chromium is at its strongest on Android. So I have to assume there is some way of making it secure inside an app sandbox.

  • echo@lemmy.ml
    6·
    9 hours ago

    I’ve been using the Flatpak version of Ungoogled Chromium for a while now (for websites that don’t work natively with Librewolf). Is this really that new?

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      The one on Flathub is unofficial, presumably this one is official

  • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    33·
    10 hours ago

    Thankfully Librewolf still uses AppImage as an option.

    The only Flatpak I bother with is the Kodi one because my distro has incompatible (read stable) library version on several things for compiling it and I’m considering just jumping to jellyfin for that, as well.