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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is just so bad. I can't use anything snap/flatpack cuz it simply won't let me send a file. As it runs on it's on file subsystem and doesn't have access to anything else.

On the other hand, an app that has access to my entire hard-drive is awfully insecure, right? So, what's the solution?

in the meantime they could include an option "I allow this app to acess my whole $HOME, thanks, I need it cuz I am a user not a security researcher". Until then I'm not touching flatpack

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