Braydon Fuller @Braydon Fuller - 8mo
Even though GNU/Linux systems don't have these types of restrictions, it would be great to have better sandboxing between desktop apps for a given user. Despite the intentional malware, software exploits and RE bugs exist and would be nice to mitigate with limited scopes and etc. Does Qubes provide better isolation or are there better alternatives?
I didn't know that about flatpak, I'll have to give it another look.
Wasn't a fan of snap, seemed like yet another package manager, but that makes a lot more sense now. It'd be great if the main package manager had it too, because that could have a lot of value for a distro.
Yeah, the inertia and familiarity of apt is one of the reasons of why it's great. However if there was a reason to change, it would be because of app isolation and getting the latest releases. Debian with flatpak sounds like a good option, need to check out Qubes soon too. The AUR system for Arch that can build from source is another that has been convincing. It was necessary to install drivers to print from a Pinebook Pro, as not many distribute ARM binaries for desktop yet. I don't think the Tor Browser had an ARM desktop build yet either, that one takes a bit to build though.
