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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Runtimes are okay, the problem is there is no runtime package manager and often you have like 7 of them, which is horrible. But on modern hard drives also no problem.

Appimages cant be easily ran from terminal, you need to link then to your Path.

For Flatpak I made a tool that aliases their launch commands to be very easy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Appimages cant be easily ran from terminal, you need to link them to your Path.

On many distros "~/.local/bin" is already in PATH, that's where I put my appimages, then make them executable and it just works.