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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 107474" data-source="post: 1084533"><p>Thanks for your insights and sharing your experience. I also only use software from the official repo, plus flatpaks offered in Linux's software manager.</p><p></p><p>Containers like Flatpak (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYXlgzrZRIE" target="_blank">explainer</a>) combined with immutable (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hiPFEUoUyI" target="_blank">explainer</a>) repo's are the future of Linux. In future I might move to Fedora Silverblue, but as Windows user I like Mint to much for the moment and stripped everything I did not need from the official repo and installed flatpaks using Linux Mint software manager.</p><p></p><p>The flatpaks I installed, always came with broader rights than needed (<a href="https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2021/11/26/the-issue-with-flatpaks-permissions-model/" target="_blank">that is common knowledge</a>), but I never needed to dive into flatpak permissions command line to adjust permissions, because Flatseal (GUI to this permissions command line) always did the trick to harden (strip rights from) the flatpak.</p><p></p><p>I only met one occasion to add rights (for installing NextDNS cert), simply allow (using Flatseal) read/write access to the folder where the cert is installed by the browser once and make it read only afterwards (by adding the magical :RO in Flatseal). So I am curious what information convinced you to stay away from flatpaks?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 107474, post: 1084533"] Thanks for your insights and sharing your experience. I also only use software from the official repo, plus flatpaks offered in Linux's software manager. Containers like Flatpak ([URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYXlgzrZRIE']explainer[/URL]) combined with immutable ([URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hiPFEUoUyI']explainer[/URL]) repo's are the future of Linux. In future I might move to Fedora Silverblue, but as Windows user I like Mint to much for the moment and stripped everything I did not need from the official repo and installed flatpaks using Linux Mint software manager. The flatpaks I installed, always came with broader rights than needed ([URL='https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2021/11/26/the-issue-with-flatpaks-permissions-model/']that is common knowledge[/URL]), but I never needed to dive into flatpak permissions command line to adjust permissions, because Flatseal (GUI to this permissions command line) always did the trick to harden (strip rights from) the flatpak. I only met one occasion to add rights (for installing NextDNS cert), simply allow (using Flatseal) read/write access to the folder where the cert is installed by the browser once and make it read only afterwards (by adding the magical :RO in Flatseal). So I am curious what information convinced you to stay away from flatpaks? [/QUOTE]
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