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Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users) (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Oh look, another Linux user whining about a binary distribution method they don't like. If you don't like Appimages, don't use them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Developers of often proprietary software think its a good format and only support that. This is a problem

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

On the one hand I am entirely sick of how people will keep wasting keystrokes on this kind of discourse when the whole point of Linux is that you can choose which one you like best.

On the other, someone on a different community said it best: "Hey, if Linux users didn't fight about what thing they want to make standard, what ELSE would we meme about?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How Windows is shit? How Manjaro didn't renew their web certificate that time years ago? Whether or not it's Gnu/Linux or just Linux? There are so many "issues" to obsess over!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~Why not the death of IRC and xmpp? Or are only other folks' complaints a problem? (Not stalking, just wanted to see what you were even doing here aside from complaining about Linux users' complaining. Turns out it's complaining.)~~

Update - Eh, sorry for being so damn grumpy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Np, I'm pretty damn grumpy lately as well. I also apologize.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Can the user choose? Not if there is only an appimage. Some devs don't realise the problems they are causing doing that. So it is very important to enlighten them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

As a user, I can't choose, if a dev only releases an appimage. Then it's a real pain or I skip the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well then, what text editor do you use then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Geany. Why?