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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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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Lucky kids. I remember when I switched to Linux and encountered my first app store (Synaptic). That was already such a huge improvement over random .exes, and app stores today are way, way better.

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

Damn even i was impressed by apt install command so much the first time

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Package managers are fine. Walled gardens are not.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Absolutely. Luckily there are plenty of non-walled garden solutions on Linux, e.g. Flatpak.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, snap could also be not. Just somebody needs to write a wrapper that allows to download, verify etc. .snap packages from other repos.

Shitty move of Canonical for sure.