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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    8 months ago

    GearLever

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    Hehe.

    Duplicated libraries

    This is a fair point but “they include all the libraries they need” is the entire point of AppImage - so mentioning this is pointless.

    “Bloat” is one big topic around these newer packaging formats so definitely not a pointless thing to bring up imo. I don’t think it should be as big of a topic as it is (the actual issue here is fairly minor imo) but it is definitely talked about.

    And flatpak (and snap I think) have much better tools to mitigate the space use issues.