Let’s take Signal, for example. There is no official Signal flatpak, unofficial apps can’t be fully trusted (yes, it’s opensource, no, I can’t review source code of every app I use). Beside this, there are a lot of apps that doesn’t have any flatpak version at all. So to use official Signal Desktop…

I wrote a guide . You can also use firejail. edit: [image] n_n: is a very insecure thing to do No it isn’t. You should trust the repo, of course, but why would it be insecure?

[image] asanyan: I wrote a guide . You can also use firejail. Thank you, but for me it falls under the category of imperfect solutions, which are quite hard to use. And I don’t use Arch btw. [image] asanyan: No it isn’t. You should trust the repo, of course, but why would it be insecure? …

You don’t need half of what is in the guide, you can configure with the GUI and it will (probably) be fine for the most part, f you’re using GNOME. Just check it if something doesn’t work, as it may. The only reason the guide is specifically “for arch distros” is because some of the packages I ment…

OK, I didn’t read thorough enough about firejail, because from the start I found negative reviews about its security model, but now I see that this is imperfect solution, which is, at least, not so hard to use. Anyway, I still have to deal with 3rd party repositories, and if I can trust that Signal…

Firejail is fine. It may not be as good as some of the alternatives in some regards but if you can’t be bothered to learn these tools it’s much better than doing nothing. The perfect is the enemy of the good. [image] n_n: 3rd party repositories That’s the problem of not using Arch. You could…

Appreciate the bubblejail suggestion and tutorial @asanyan , it looks promising but the GitHub shows there are already quirks for non-AUR installs that have instructions, so I’m guessing I’d be upstream w/o a paddle if my distro isn’t listed. @n_n I tried Firejail myself and struggled before giving …

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I wrote a guide. You can also use firejail.

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No it isn’t. You should trust the repo, of course, but why would it be insecure?

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