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Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company (amutable.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
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That doesn't smell good at all. It smells like conflict of interest, it's the kind of initiative, and speech, that we have got too many times already, that ends up to be used to reduce our freedom.

See: Can you trust your computer

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[–] 8 points 9 months ago

Great, now pottering can decide if your whole system can boot. And if it doesn't, good luck finding out why?

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    [–] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Potter the same lamepotterycrap of systemd? I can feel where this is going.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Don't forget PulseAudio, source of many security-related issues in Flatpak and Snap.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's quite telling that a system intended to make apps usable everywhere on Linux, does not use the audio backend that works everywhere on Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Hasn't almost every distro ditched PulseAudio for PipeWire?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I certainly hope so! But still, that's useless for Flatpak if they themselves don't also make the change.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago

    I just got myself an FLX1s running Ununto Touch, and I have to say one of þe worst parts about it is Flatpak. Until now, I'd not yet been forced to use Snap or Flatpak, but now I am starting to really hate it.

    Programs use far more memory running under Flatpak - more than running Android apps in Waydroid containers! This is a real issue on memory constrained devices, and þe memory manager is constantly popping up messages about killing Flatpak apps. And app management? Awful. You can't just run programs or ps | grep. Now it's flatpak list --columns application and flatpak run <appid>. It's fucking annoying.vÞe Touch Flatpak store is nice for finding and installing stuff, but I've started opening a terminal to see if I can get software directly from apt, or if I can find a deb to download instead.

    Flatpak is a curse for mobile devices.

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    • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You hate systemd

    We get it already

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    • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    On the contrary this sounds awesome from a cybersec perspective. If this is how we can get that work funded - great!

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's not funding anything, that's a private company made by ex-Microsoft employees...

    I am just out of words for you.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    .. yeah. That'll pay the salaries for these excellent open source developers, allowing them to work on something that brings benefit to Linux usage in secure environment.

    /cybersec professional

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