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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] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One specific implementation by a terrible company that can barely manage to check quality control on their actual products isn’t a very good example of appimage’s problems.

Not saying they don’t have problems. But having seen creality’s version of Marlin, I gotta say, I’d be willing to bet they rebranded something, but using vastly out of date versions.

Probably should switch to simplify3d, prusa or cura.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While you're not wrong, the problem I was referencing is an outdated library embedded in the image. It makes the whole app crash and it could happen to any app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That’s a creality problem. Not an appimage problem.

They’d have a just as shitty flatpak or whatever else they used; because that’s how the company is.

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

Are you trying to tell me creality is the only one who would ever embed a library in an appimage? Isn't that supposed to be half the point, that it comes with what it needs?

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

No. I’m telling you that they won’t maintain it properly.

Not when it’s a reskinned cura fork. There marlin (printer firmware- nominally more important) versions are old too… last I checked, by years.