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Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users) (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Appimages are awesome for the regular user. Single file, just double click to run anywhere. Snap and Flatpak should die a quick death and all the work should be used to improve Appimages. There's no other concept for the end user as simple and clear as this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

They mimic the apple application format to some degree and it is a great way to distribute. The real detriment is sandboxing but with more support this could be included.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I double clicked, the program didn't run because it's missing some dependencies

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No it is not. Appimages are bad.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4WuYGcs0t6I&t=456

Watch that talk. And also read the text I guess. Also comments under other comments.

Appimages are seriously broken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/watch?v=4WuYGcs0t6I&t=456

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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