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.

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    TIP: Flatpak have a build-in way for creating USB, check out the “flatpak --help”.

    But the point is with Appimage all that have to be installed is FUSE, which is expected to be installed on most installs when you go to a friend or work where Linux is used.

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      8 months ago

      Oh nice!

      Flatpak also works everywhere and appimages are not ported to fuse3…

      I mean I want to think Appimages where nice, and they are kinda, but no.