Flatpak: A security nightmare – two years later
Obviously both FlatPack and Snap have failed. Everybody hares them for many serious reasons. Yet there are awesome ideas behind. The Mac way of installing apps (by just putting the packages into a dedicated directory) is cool and intuitive, removing a lot of entities a user has to understand. Sand-boxing and being able to fine-tune the interactions with the host system and the Internet an app is allowed to perform is a feature absurd to be lacking. Do we need to invent a new format, taking FlatPack and Snap mistakes in account to just get all of that, implemented a working and easily usable way?