Dont install random stuff to your system guys
flatpak remote-add flathub-verified --subset=verified https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add flathub-verified --subset=verified https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
I have just had bad experiences with flatpack so I don't want to use it and the aur has the stuff I need and flatpack dose not
I've had nothing but good experiences with Flatpaks/Flathub and bad experiences with AUR/nixpkgs.
Fedora also has it's own Flatpak repo now with it's own runtime.
Same. Ubuntu AND Fedora Libreoffice, SciDAVis and more where broken, not the Flatpaks.
Flatpak is really meant for the big GUI apps. No problem with small distro packages really. It just takes off the huge burdens of maintaining distro packages for like Libreoffice, which is as big as the Linux Kernel.
You need to be more specific.
You need to think about the background problem here.
When Google made Android, it was web based. Their "perfect sandbox" ironically has no internet toggle. They won tons of marketshare, and iOS is not different here, both restrict apps to containers and have permission systems to reach out of these containers to access sensors, files and other data.
Desktop operating systems are way older and have no such concept. We have mandatory access control with SELinux and Apparmor, but those are (I think) more complicated than Flatpak.
Flatpak is a solution for multiple problems of Desktop Linux Apps at once.
These are all extremely important points for a healthy, modern and secure Linux Desktop.
But there are also issues to every point:
home
or even host
, allowing surveillance or trivial (even documented) privilege escalation. This is basically how apps like Flatseal work. Pulseaudio has no portal, do apps can listen to your mic whenever they want.If you have issues with flatpaks, you need to be more specific. Maybe it is a packaging issue, or you expect an app to do stuff that is not