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foresto·Jan 26, 2026

Steam creates its pressure-vessel containers using namespaces, and there is a Steam flatpak, which I think was made possible by some work a few years ago specifically for the purpose of nesting. I don't know if that work applied to flatpak, bubblewrap, or both. It might be worth investigating. https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/t... https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam

In Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions

ELFfBtiN1yLzonf·Sep 5, 2024

> their flatpak Steam flatpak was not created by and is not supported by Valve. It's an unofficial project, and flathub says as much (I'm assuming you mean the flathub package): https://flathub.org/apps/com.valvesoftware.Steam > Unverified https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam

In Porting systemd to musl Libc-powered Linux

arghwhat·Apr 17, 2021

Examples of popular apps that can write to the host filesystem (and remember kids, the ability to write to $HOME always means full account takeover, followed shortly by root access if your account can sudo): - vs code (https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code/blob/91e589...) - chromium (https://github.com/flathub/org.chromium.Chromium/blob/1edd4a...) - sublime text (https://github.com/flathub/com.sublimetext.three/blob/d1f617...) - obs studio (https://github.com/flathub/com.obsproject.Studio/blob/051f6f...) The applications above also provide other dangerous privileges, but they pale in the presence of filesystem access. Examples of applications that have full device access (which is considered insecure and called "not ideal" in the flatpak docs), as well as sharing a bunch of namespaces like network and IPC (meaning these parts a

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re not sandboxed): - discord (https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/blob/maste...) - steam (https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/blob/beta...) - telegram (https://github.com/flathub/org.telegram.desktop/blob/beta/or...) - lutris (https://github.com/flathub/net.lutris.Lutris/blob/beta/net.l...) Of all the applications I sampled (some by popularity, some random I knew), all gave full device access and disabled network/ipc sandboxing. A significant chunk gave filesystem=host access (not even home, host!). (I am however happy to see that the number of filesystem=home/filesystem=host manifests seem to have dropped.) > The fact that you're suggesting two separate technologies in combination confirms this, in my opinion. Whenever independent tasks need to be accomplished, independent solutions is the superior choice. The alternative are monoliths and semi-closed gardens.

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moviuro·Dec 10, 2020

I've had some serious crashes with Feral games (see [0]), but other games have been working really well (Risk of Rain 1, Factorio, Stellaris). [0] https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/pull/646 ; yes, LOCALE_* env variables make games crash; also, yes, Feral has been totally unhelpful.

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