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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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[–] brax 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hate them both, give me a .Deb (or equivalent) if you're gonna package it. And get off my lawn! 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Installing .deb files from random sources is also very insecure and not reliable for updates.

[–] brax -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Less secure than blindly installing flatpaks or appimages?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Appimages work "everywhere" so they are better for distributing malware.

Flatpaks are normally not installed from random sources and I hope it stays like that.

So yes and no.

[–] brax 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, got it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

(Also Flatpaks are, at least in theory, sandboxed and can't mess with your system stuff unless you allow them to)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Not yet.

The permissions are too comlicated (unlike "allow documents access" on Mac for example)

And there is no Desktop GUI integration for opt-in to permissions. So install, open Flatseal / KDEs settings, harden, then run.