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Flathub has passed 3 billion downloads (lemmy.ml)

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[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah. It has easier sandboxing. You can accomplish most of the same things with traditional packages with something like apparmour, but flatpak has motivated the development of portals which allows apps to request permissions on the fly more easily.