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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

From a maximum security perspective, you should be checking all the code you install on your computer. No matter if it is foss, audited by some group, or proprietary (if possible). What would stop a bad actor from auditing malicious code and approving it?

As for sandboxing, there's multiple options, not the least of which is containerization.

Again, security is a compromise. More security normally comes at some cost just as less security does.

But back to the topic of the post. You are complaining that SimpleX doesn't work when installed though a flatpak (because one doesn't exist). So perhaps it's not a good software to rely on flatpaks for. Unless you choose to only install software via flatpaks, to which I'd say that's admirable but also perhaps needlessly limiting. Either way it's your choice, but I would suggest some open mindedness of options that may let you use the software you want.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah I tried the ubuntu version through Distrobox, which is way more secure. But they have no repo, and it broke apt lol.

Appimages are completely insecure, there are literally no updates. Its a random bundle of libraries, as old as possible to work on every old kernel, and they are just broken by design (see an old post of mine).

There is flatpak packaging work done and I want to learn that and help, as Flatpak is just the best.