A lot of flatkill.org’s statements are made to incite fear in the Linux community. Given that all Flatpak packages and application build scripts are available and able to be edited by anyone, the appropriate response is to educate on why this is a problem, and then fix it. The way that flatkill.org approached this issue says a lot.

Hi,

This is a direct response to flatkill.org 2020.

I’ve heard a lot of misinformation about Flatpak spread by the community and by a website called flatkill.org. I took the time to write my own response with the help of Flatpak contributors and developers to debunk the claims of flatkill.org to stop the spread of false information.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    There is App-Armor and Ubuntu Touch has implemented it in a way that nearly all apps are confined by it and data-exchange only happens mediated through a software called media-hub.

    I think this could be used as a basis for a general system on GNU/Linux as otherwise UT is pretty close to a “normal” Linux (except that they are still on upstart with Ubuntu16.04 and use read-only system images).

    But the problem is that normally this kind of app confinement is the first thing regular Linux users complain about when using UT as it restricts the freedom of what apps (and the user) can do. This is IMHO largely why UT adoption on the PinePhone has failed, despite it being the first usable OS on it when the community editions where launched initially.