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.

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    If worst comes to worst you can just distribute your .flatpak file directly, as you would with your app image

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      9 months ago

      This would tick a lot of issues but please dont do that. People will get used to it and suddenly malware is possible again.