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Appimages, snaps and flatpaks, which one do you prefer and why?

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[-] callyral@readit.buzz 10 points 1 year ago

Although I mostly use native software, I find AppImages useful for testing beta software, since they're one file and easy to try out.

For example: I've been using it with the Krita 5.2 beta and I have also used it before for Godot betas.

I use Flatpak when the native package doesn't work properly or isn't updated at the rate I'd like, although there are cases where I will use it for other reasons, like sandboxing when I don't want an app to have access to everything.

I have never used snaps.

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