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A response to claims about flatpak being insecure

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · yesterday Cached

A rebuttal blog post defending Flatpak's security model against claims that it is an 'insecurity nightmare', covering its containerization history, confinement, portals, and permission model.

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KDE turns 30 with Plasma 6.8, remote upgrades, and an X11 farewell

Ars Technica ↗ · 4d ago Cached

KDE celebrates its 30th anniversary by releasing Plasma 6.8, the "30th Anniversary Edition," which retires native X11 session support in favor of full Wayland adoption. The update also introduces Nvidia triple buffering by default, Kup backup integration, and the kscreenctl display configuration utility.

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Flatpak from the CLI sucks

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-10-04 Cached

This blog post critiques the poor command-line experience of Flatpak on Linux, arguing that despite making GUI apps easy to distribute across distributions, running CLI tools as Flatpaks is awkward and that developers largely avoid packaging them for this reason.

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