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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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[-] DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I think appimages are this popular because of tauri

[-] OR3X@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

App Images do suck, but I don't think flatpak is much better. It's more of a lesser of two evils situation. Snap isn't even in the conversation.

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