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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] 1 points 9 months ago

Agree. But support by distros would make them acceptable. Only if they tick the basic security requirements of a repo, actual maintenance and download verification, this should be done.

Icons on Wayland are not possible, because of security. Apps could spawn a window that looks like Chromium and ask for a password, for example.

Do they need desktop entries, DEs should absolutely not create them for those apps.

Yes I think I touched the library issue a bit, but this is really bad. There is no updating system that could tell you what apps are affected too.