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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I mean, can’t you just package your app in flatpack or even snap? Bam, your app works on 99% of distributions for little effort. That’s what Spotify does, and I’d argue they have even less incentive to support Linux than proton does

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 19 points 9 months ago

Spoken like someone who has never developed a app package

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 points 9 months ago

I don't know, I'm not a developer. Lots of companies don't make their products available on Linux, most cite similar reasoning, so it's unsurprising. But I agree it's disappointing. I really wish Linux was more user-friendly.

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

He also answered this claim, it is right for apps that aren't stuff like Proton VPN that can't work in a sandboxed environment. They are working on it iirc

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Screw VPNs, give us everything else!

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well... A drive app will need to access the filesystem pretty in deep to support file syncing, whuch is harder to do on flatpak, their password manager is an extension so on linux too, and for the mail bridge app I think it's already on linux. Those are all the existing proton services

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sure, as long as you don't need any integration with other software, don't need arbitrary IPC, and actually keep some dependencies in line with some common denominator because there's only so much you can do with static linking (oh excuse me, distributing the shared libraries in the same package as your binaries as if it's a new thing) once it reach the "program must actually run" part.

Flatpack and every other similar solution that are described as "works everywhere" always come with a heck of limitations.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thunderbird, MegaSync, Bitwarden all distribute as flatpak just fine, and it covers most of the functionality of proton suite.

Ironically the only two services this list doesn't cover: Proton VPN and Proton Bridge, are on flathub...

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Last in checked email ain't all that complex, so seems like a good match