@maxgerhardt I’m no expert, but I have spent many fruitless hours trying to make a flatpak version of another pretty obscure app that I use a fair bit. From my limited understanding of containers, which a flatpak basically is, they are completely self contained. Except when they need to access other parts of the system, and then the container has to be given express permission to access those elements. So if a flatpak requires access to a particular library to work, and the library exists, unless the flatpak has been specifically given permission to access that library, for the flatpak the library doesn’t exist.
Having said that the app I was trying to flatpak (opentx companion if it’s of interest) needs to be able to read from and write to a microcontroller based device (a model radio control transmitter) plugged in via usb port, and I just could not get it to talk to the device. Irritatingly it would work in test mode, using the flatpak “run” command, but once it was installed as a container, it just would not talk to the usb port.
I’ve given up on that project now. I was using Fedora Silverblue as I was interested in the concept of an immutable OS. But it’s still too beta for anybody other than techhead gurus who know Linux inside out and back to front, as my dear old Mum used to say. And I’m not one of them.
The thing that bothers me most though, is that I can’t be the only person on the planet using VS Code OSS flatpak. There must be thousands of us out there, but I have not seen any other discussion on the net about this issue. So is it just me, or am I being paranoid? <<twilight zone theme music>>
Ian