Scroll down to the bottom, it’s the last two questions.
I also dislike flatpak and snap.
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.
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.
While I personally find Flatpak beneficial and use it on my system, I think having someone with as extreme views as RMS is essential.
I exclusively run web browsers in flatpak
I love that no
firefox
orchromium
process has access to e.g. ~/.ssh or /etc or any number of other things a web browser has no business accessingIt’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
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