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Signal installation in a Distrobox
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this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2025
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it literally prompts you to enable it and is just one command. I get Linux can be hard, but setting up an entire distrobox just to avoid entering the single command.
Also the only reason it's experimental is because you have to enter that command manually, not because it's any less safe.
I mean, I use the Flatpak, but I have also run into breakage concerning the experimental support, resulting in Signal Desktop no longer being able to start, and me having to track down a GitHub issue with a workaround. I can imagine wanting to run the Distrobox just so you're closer to a system that the upstream developers actually test with - not so much to avoid running a single command, but to lower risk of breakage.
That's interesting, Ig it really can break.
Yeah unfortunately i can't quite recall the context, but I think they were attempting to make encrypted storage the default, but then that broke on existing databases or something? It was a pain at least, I know that much 😅
(Although would be less of a pain nowadays, now that Signal has proper sync to restore my history.)