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orra on March 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (20...

Well, there’ll always be a long tail. But if you start with the popular apps and frameworks first, you get the most bang for your buck.

It wouldn't surprise me however if sandboxing is only a good model for GUI not console app.

IIRC the Windows 10X approach will be to put all non-sandboxed apps in the exact same environment.

AshamedCaptain on March 22, 2021 [–]

As mentioned above, Flatpak is already doing the two most popular toolkits. Programs just don't use toolkits to open files. So there is not a lot of "buck" here, and the tail is rather long.

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