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Bitwarden is now verified on Flathub for Linux (infosec.pub)

submitted 9 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/bitwarden@discuss.tchncs.de

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22106115

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[+] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de -13 points 9 months ago (16 children)

Thanks, but I'd rather eat shards of glass than working with flatpak or snap ever again

[+] penquin@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

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[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They’re actually very bad.

Care to elaborate? They seem to be working great for myself and family.

[–] cron@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not OP, but what annoys me are permission issues. I installed a program that couldn't access a specific folder and it took me quite a while to find out that this is not an issue of the app, but the flatpak didn't have this directory in its whitelist.

Also, when one flatpak should interact with another flatpak, it gets messy (e.g. steam/mangohud).

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's fair but it's also one of the biggest selling points for me. The isolation it provides is one of the reasons I'd rather ran applications in Flatpak (if possible).

[–] cron@feddit.org 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I love the security aspects and it's about time that desktop apps cannot access all your files & apps.

But the implementation is IMO improveable. Maybe by the makers of flatpak, maybe by the app developers. A simple Error message like this one would have helped:

Error: Cannot access directory /data, please grant the permission by following these steps (...)

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Maybe by the makers of flatpak, maybe by the app developers

This falls on the app developers. They're supposed to be using something called XDG desktop portals. It opens a filepicker window on the host, the user selects which file they want, and that specific file gets passed through into the sandbox automatically, no permissions needed. Though it's not perfect either -- AFAIK there's no way to pass though a directory using XDG portal, and drag-and-drop is broken (at least on X11). For command-line apps (tho it's not really what flatpak was designed for), the equivalent is the --file-forwarding option.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

That's why i use flatpak Firefox for browsing and non flatpak librewolf for running html games, as Firefox wouldn't load images into the html due to permissions

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