GitHub - boredsquirrel/dont-use-appimages: Appimages are an insecure packaging system with very limited use cases. Please use Flatpak instead!
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Appimages are an insecure packaging system with very limited use cases. Please use Flatpak instead! - boredsquirrel/dont-use-appimages

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.

  • Vincent@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    Lucky kids. I remember when I switched to Linux and encountered my first app store (Synaptic). That was already such a huge improvement over random .exes, and app stores today are way, way better.

      • Vincent@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        Absolutely. Luckily there are plenty of non-walled garden solutions on Linux, e.g. Flatpak.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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          8 months ago

          I mean, snap could also be not. Just somebody needs to write a wrapper that allows to download, verify etc. .snap packages from other repos.

          Shitty move of Canonical for sure.