• Pasta Dental@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Awesome, that was a huge stain for me when I was still using it as my main PW manager. Been waiting for this news for a few years now haha

  • penquin@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Didn’t they just go closed source? I switched to proton pass.

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      That’s misleading. Their SDK which is used to build their enterprise product is no longer open source. You can still compile the main version without it.

      There was a period where you couldn’t, but it was a bug that has now been fixed.

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      Ok but it’s an extra option for people who would like to use it. Why get angry at that?

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        22 hours ago

        I didn’t say “everyone who uses it should eat shards of glass”.

        If people enjoy it, go ahead. I’m just not one of them

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      1 day ago

      Why? Flatpak doesn’t seem bad in my experience, except for downloading extra dependencies per program.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 day ago

        I’ve never had a single flatpak program work properly. FP definitely is a super tiny bit better than snap, but they both just absolutely not work for me in any program I ever used it with

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          10 hours ago

          Strange, I use Flatpak for a lot of things including Firefox. Might be an issue with your Linux installation or drivers.

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      1 day ago

      I actually understand your frustration and I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I can never use flatpaks. They’re actually very bad. They’re definitely better than snaps, but they’re terrible.

      • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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        1 day ago

        They’re actually very bad.

        Care to elaborate? They seem to be working great for myself and family.

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          19 hours ago
          • Permissions are very vague (if that’s the right word. Sorry non-native English speaker). Like you start having issues with an app then hours later you find out it has no access. That happened to me with steam when I was trying to use my second SSD to save my games and the thing would never work. It took me hours to find out I needed to give it permission. And for that I had to download flatseal. There should be a warning or something I don’t know.
          • Storage. They take too much space
          • Theming. They (in my case) would never respect my system theme. They just have their own mind and don’t care what theme the system has. You have to use flatseal again to give them some kind of permission, and that I still don’t know how to do. And if it’s a system theme (like one of those system wide themes, gets even more complicated).
            AUR saved me. Now I don’t ever touch flatpaks. To clarify, I still appreciate all the hard work being done on them, they’re just not for me.
            EDIT: all the above is a major turn off for new users. I know they’re all user error (except the storage maybe), but a new user is already probably flustered, and they don’t need more confusion.
          • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
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            8 hours ago

            Valid complaints. I can see the first and last issue being addressed at some point, not sure what they could do about storage space.

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          Not OP, but what annoys me are permission issues. I installed a program that couldn’t access a specific folder and it took me quite a while to find out that this is not an issue of the app, but the flatpak didn’t have this directory in its whitelist.

          Also, when one flatpak should interact with another flatpak, it gets messy (e.g. steam/mangohud).

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            24 hours ago

            That’s fair but it’s also one of the biggest selling points for me. The isolation it provides is one of the reasons I’d rather ran applications in Flatpak (if possible).

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              I love the security aspects and it’s about time that desktop apps cannot access all your files & apps.

              But the implementation is IMO improveable. Maybe by the makers of flatpak, maybe by the app developers. A simple Error message like this one would have helped:

              Error: Cannot access directory /data, please grant the permission by following these steps (…)

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                19 hours ago

                Error: Cannot access directory /data, please grant the permission by following these steps (…)

                That would solve a ton of issues for new users. At least let them aware, instead of them scrambling for hours.

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                Maybe by the makers of flatpak, maybe by the app developers

                This falls on the app developers. They’re supposed to be using something called XDG desktop portals. It opens a filepicker window on the host, the user selects which file they want, and that specific file gets passed through into the sandbox automatically, no permissions needed. Though it’s not perfect either – AFAIK there’s no way to pass though a directory using XDG portal, and drag-and-drop is broken (at least on X11). For command-line apps (tho it’s not really what flatpak was designed for), the equivalent is the --file-forwarding option.

            • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
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              21 hours ago

              That’s why i use flatpak Firefox for browsing and non flatpak librewolf for running html games, as Firefox wouldn’t load images into the html due to permissions