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[-] rollingflower@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 7 months ago

Please be aware that you just commented on some of the points.

Madaidan is often criticised and debunked, and that "linux is insecure" post is pretty old.

They say that many flatpakked apps have broad permissions, which is not a flatpak issue, because those are simply legacy apps that are often huge, dont support Flatpak at all and often also dont care.

I maintain a list of modern apps, that do not need broad permissions like that

They mention the "badness enumeration" like restricted syscalls, which is really problematic and seems to still be used. This is really bad and I hope it gets fixed, will open an issue about that.

But dont forget: flatpak apps may have broad permissions, but native apps have all permissions, appimages too. They have unrestricted syscalls, if not changed in the system itself.

So these might be valid points, but not a defense of Appimages at all.

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