Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively.
Their use case is tiny, and in 99% of cases Flatpak is just better.
I could not find a single post or article about all the problems they have, so I wrote this.
This is not about shaming open source contributors. But Appimages are obviously broken, pretty badly maintained, while organizations/companies like Balena, Nextcloud etc. don’t seem to get that.
Appimages are awesome for the regular user. Single file, just double click to run anywhere. Snap and Flatpak should die a quick death and all the work should be used to improve Appimages. There’s no other concept for the end user as simple and clear as this.
I double clicked, the program didn’t run because it’s missing some dependencies
They mimic the apple application format to some degree and it is a great way to distribute. The real detriment is sandboxing but with more support this could be included.
No it is not. Appimages are bad.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4WuYGcs0t6I&t=456
Watch that talk. And also read the text I guess. Also comments under other comments.
Appimages are seriously broken
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