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Some of these apps can't work as flatpaks at all, because they require more access to the system, e.g. Davinci Resolve. AppImage allows that. I mean, heck, even Ubuntu runs a virtual filesystem in order to allow its Snap Firefox to access the Dictionary that lives "outside" its sandboxing. So, yes, there are cases where AppImages do serve a purpose. Not most cases, but a lot of cases.
afaik, you can allow more system access to flatpaks
i believe flatpak also does that, you can specify some paths from the host to be available to the flatpak
Are these access problems not solvable with XDG portals?
Have a look at GPU screen recorder, I think thats as much privileges as you need.
XDG-desktop portals are not yet complete. But for filesystem access and GPU de/encoding that should already work.
If the Davinci Resolve devs actually cared about Linux...
Have a look at GPU screen recorder, I think thats as much privileges as you need.
XDG-desktop portals are not yet complete. But for filesystem access and GPU de/encoding that should already work.
If the Davinci Resolve devs actually cared about Linux... I think the best way to run it is using uBlues image on Podman.