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Comment by NewJazz

7 days ago

Flatpak provides very weak sandboxing compared to android. It was more about packaging and distribution than security.

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necovek  6 days ago

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html says otherwise.

Most apps not using tight hardening are for different reasons though (files/folders org).

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