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How does it stack up against traditional package management and others like AUR and Nix?

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[–] chat_mots@jlai.lu 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I love the idea and the philosophy behind ! I have no trouble with them for now, one click install perfect.

However I’ll never use it for programming and I don’t understand why people use vs code flatpak or other coding app, because the app is contained and cannot interact with your system.

[–] chat_mots@jlai.lu 2 points 8 months ago

@Shareni@programming.dev @CeeBee@lemmy.world thanks for the resources I did not know. I was pretty confused it was not possible to do it and here you are thx ! :)

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

the app is contained and cannot interact with your system.

It can. Think of it like allowing a phone app to interact with your stored files.

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

[–] CeeBee@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

the app is contained and cannot interact with your system.

That's not how it works. Install Flatseal and you can give it fine grained access to whatever you want, or just everything.