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.

  • Luci@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Odd, this random github rant didn’t seem to sway my opinion.

    To hell with user choice, only flatpak

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      9 months ago

      It’s thanks to user choice that we aren’t all stuck on proprietary operating systems, so saying that isn’t great.