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Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users) (github.com)
submitted 8 months ago by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 months ago

AppImages can be double clicked and executed. They are not a pain to use.

i can understand that, but flatpaks are easier to upgrade and automatically integrated into your package manager, which (i believe) isn't as straight forward for appimages. also there's one major repo where you can find most apps (flathub) making app-hunting less daunting i feel like.
also, once your app is installed, it's always in your system menu, so that doesn't change much in the long run

Comfortable setup that carried over from Ubuntu LTS.

can't you carry over flatpaks as well? you can probably copy /var/lib/flatpak or wherever they store their stuff from one system to another, or failing that, save all the app IDs you have installed, and re-install them onto your new system, backing up ~/.var to keep all your data!

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 8 months ago

Flatpack puts all app data in ~/.var?? Ewww! No thanks.

[-] yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

not sure about the path, you should check flatpak's docs for more accurate informations

but i believe so, yeah

on one had it's a shame they're not using xdg dirs, but on the other, i kinda get why -- it's neither config files, nor just data -- it's both, it's a container

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