Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager - OMG! Ubuntu
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The Software Manager app in Linux Mint 22 will deliver faster start-up times and introduce a significant security safeguard for search results. As you may
  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    5 months ago

    It is proprierary Software, running as a pretty unrestricted app on your system.

    The app could steal your Keys, read your photos, scan for pirated music or whatever.

    Yeah, no problem XD

    for sure you could do the Microsoft Way and trust random big tech, because otherwise you would just sue them… but no.

    The spotify Flatpak has no Filesystem permissions afaik, and it thus pretty okay secure, even if you dont trust the upstream.

    • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
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      5 months ago

      Ok yes it is proprietary, but at least it’s from the main source and is confirmed to work well, which reduces risk, at the cost of sandboxing.

      it’s a tradeoff, and I think mint did the right thing.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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        5 months ago

        The Flatpak meanwhile is transparently packaged, using the binary from the official Snap.

        Canonical to my knowledge took forever for convincing Spotify to support Linux. Supporting Flatpak should be easy, but whatever.