Shoutout to the guy who convinced me to stop using id Tech 1 tools in flatpak

I used to just grab the flatpak version of SLADE for my Doom mapping because it was easy. But last month a modder in the Quake community Discord saw my WAD files were all messed up with file permissions and told me to install the native Linux version instead. Took me 20 minutes to switch over and now my texture imports don't hang for 30 seconds every time. Has anyone else run into weird permission bugs with flatpak tools like that?

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margaret_nelson21d ago

Flatpak sandboxing wrecks file paths for custom games every time.

shane_ross21d ago

Flatpak sandboxing actually does allow per-app file access if you use Flatseal or the command line. Most game devs just don't ship the right permissions by default.