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Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu (www.theregister.com)
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Ubuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.

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[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

In reality, every time you add another store, you are essentially giving those people root on your machine.

That's not true. Not even I have root when using flatpak, how should anyone else have root using my flatpak.

I guess he just means that you give them a lot of power but root is not the same