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skilltheamps, (edited ) to linux in Installies, a site for managing, organizing, and retrieving shell scripts for installing things on Linux and Unix-based operating systems.

I think one puzzle piece of improvement is flatpak:

  • It has a verification system, such that users can see which apps are packaged by their developers. For those apps, this eliminates the need to trust a separate maintainer entirely
  • It targets almost all linux distributions with a single package. This cuts down the packaging effort for covering the majority of the linux landscape so much, that the number of package maintainers required to be trusted collapses - in the ideal case to just the developers themselves as in the first bullet point
  • It makes use of sandboxing, so in case of a malicious app it (in theory) only has access to the stuff the user gave it permission to.

In reality there’s a plethora of problems obviously:

  • verified apps are the minority
  • some people don’t like the additional storage needed for runtimes (although the more flatpaks you use the more runtimes can be shared and its overall impact gets smaller)
  • A lot of apps do not yet use all the portals, and require the classical full access to the system to work properly (in some cases the user can still remove some permission if certain features of the application are not needed by them though). This is just a question of ongoing development work, and hopefully we reach a point in the near future where a flatpak app without tied down permissions raises eyebrows
skilltheamps, to linux in Installies, a site for managing, organizing, and retrieving shell scripts for installing things on Linux and Unix-based operating systems.

I wholeheartedly agree, yet this is the same for stuff like the AUR, every PPA, or even just blindly copy & pasting inductions from some blog - all of which are very popular. (Just to name some examples that are closer to what op wants to do).

I still wouldn’t use scripts from a random dump site because they are just likely to mess up the os with junk and cruft that will be there forever. But fundamentally from a security point of few its not necessarily worse than what many are doing - simply because it doesn’t get worse than blindly executing stuff from sources missing the reputation to justify trusting them.

skilltheamps, to linux in Vivaldi Is Available on Flathub – Brno Hat

Because the seemingly great choice of Webbrowsers in reality boils down to a risky monoculture of chromium (/its webengine). The only real alternative is Firefox/Blink. Risky, because the main driver behind Chrome-/ium (Google) is not acting on behalf of the public interest towards a free, open and privacy preserving internet. Instead they’re working on a privacy exploiting one that gets locked down using DRM technologies. Them being a vendor of major parts of the internet as well as the browser to use it makes this a lethal combination. Firefox will definitely exist for as long as Google exists, because its their tool to defy claims of a monopoly, but they will do everything to keep it the small and mostly irrelevant “competitor” it is currently. Therefore, stand against Googles evil play and help Mozilla to gain some actual indipendence and leverage for keeping the internet free (as in freedom), open and privacy preserving.

skilltheamps, to linux in Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

There’s softmaker office, it’s from a german company: www.softmaker.com/en/products/softmaker-office

skilltheamps, to linux in Gnome Calendar Flatpak: how to use online source on non GNOME?

Have you taken care about the calendar in flatpak having access to the evolution data server in the distrobox?

skilltheamps, to linux in Fedora Linux 39 Released As A Wonderful Upgrade For Leading Workstations & Servers

You can install silverblue, and then rebase to ublue ( universal-blue.org ). Specifically to the “silverblue-nvidia” variant, and you should get a nice silverblue experience without any of the nvidia struggles, as people at the ublue project take care of that stuff for you.

And yes, distrobox is the goto solution to run stuff that is basically ubuntu-only, or by extension bound to any distro variant / version and not flatpak. This includes graphical applications. Distrobox works great, I do all my work in it.

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