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question about app images (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Flat snap and app images. You can't hang out in linux land for long with out hearing about them. Now I get why Snap aren't love by some, they are not fully open souse. But why so little love for app images?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Think of AppImage like a standalone executable on windows, you download it, it just works and thats good. But it doesnt get automatic updates and to get a new feature you need to download it again. Flatpaks and Snaps don't have this issue and are more like traditional package managers.