• TechieDamien@lemmy.ml
    175·
    13 days ago

    Those are two completely different things. It is like saying “why hammers not apples?” There is no logical answer, they are just two completely different things.

  • ryannathans@aussie.zone
    7·
    13 days ago

    I would assume because the whole model of encrypting your drives and installing bootloaders doesn’t blend well with the flatpak sandbox

    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
      5·
      13 days ago

      You can give a Flatpak the necessary permissions to modify disks. All the permissions needed by Veracrypt could be granted.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zone
        2·
        13 days ago

        I haven’t used veracrypt to encrypt linux system partitions. Does it do all the decryption in user space somehow?

      • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        and then what’s the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package? that it can be used with older dependencies? if so, is that a good thing to have for things that modify system startup?

        • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          13 days ago

          and then what’s the benefit of having veracrypt as a flatpak package?

          Flatpaks is a universal package format, it works almost everywhere. Also, there are immutable distros, that use flatpak as the default package format.