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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?