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.

  • Tiuku@sopuli.xyz
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    8 months ago

    The only use case for Appimages
    If users want to carry applications around on a thumbdrive, or run on a fully immutable system like TAILS, Appimages may be needed. But this is the only target, and it is not a standard use case.

    I guess I agree. This is precisely the case where I have ever used them. Namely to have a portable executable of my password manager on a stick together with a backup of the password database.

    I had no idea they were being used elsewhere.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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      8 months ago

      Nextcloud, Balena Etcher, Lunar Launcher and more are exclusively supporting Appimage, thats the big problem.