Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Flatpaks give you all sorts of controls for your Linux apps, but what the heck do these permissions actually mean?

This video is a reupload due to various Flatpak maintainers contacting me about the specific nature of zypak and it's interaction with Chromium-based browsers. Please view this thread here: https://vt.social/@trafotin/110357781040304158

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👇 Sauce:
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro to Flatpaks
2:40 When NOT to Flatpak
7:26 Permission Management
8:53 Network
10:04 IPC
10:48 (Don't) Fallback to X11
11:54 Pulseaudio
12:46 device=all
13:26 Filesystem Access
14:03 Fixing Problems
15:39 Outro

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