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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] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

AppImage is a nice way to have an app on an USB stick, remote server or for archival. But for normal app usage, why?

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

I want to find a way to do this with flatpaks too.

A small GUI tool (a statically linked binary lol) that can be placed on that stick

copy the flatpak app and runtime stuff to a folder
copy the desktop entry over
copy app data when chosen

And the same thing to copy it from the stick to a live system. Should work, probably not haha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 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.