Its even worse when you force Firefox to use wayland its icon doesn’t even show.
Edit: Oh since everyone now is confused; I only have the flatpak version of Firefox installed yet it doesn’t use the pinned icon and doesn’t even use the firefox icon under wayland at all.
Sounds more and more like flatpak is a distribution atop of a distribution.
Good you can share libs, although I can’t see sense in sharing more than the absolute basic libs, and even then some applications will need different versions of the basic libs.
From what I gather nix is more of a next generation package manager than a application container/sandbox which means potential security problems with old libs could be less, or rather they are probably at the same level as rpm/deb.
I don’t see any problems with rpm/deb/etc. ending up getting the boot by nix or another package manager just because they are better, that’s just evolution.
As someone said about flatpak/snap that their ‘hidden’ strength is distribution of proprietary software, that’s fine by me if that’s the main usage of them.
The sandbox feature can be solved by SELinux/docker/and several other ways depending on usecase.
Sandboxing is not the main feature of Flatpak/Snap, being able to ship an app for various distributions without having to configure them separately is. Docker/Podman can do that, but then you would actually be shipping an entire distro.
