GitHub - trytomakeyouprivate/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! - trytomakeyouprivate/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.

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
    201·
    8 months ago

    AppImage is a nice way to have an app on an USB stick, remote server or for archival. But for normal app usage, why?

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      41·
      8 months ago

      I want to find a way to do this with flatpaks too.

      A small GUI tool (a statically linked binary lol) that can be placed on that stick

      • copy the flatpak app and runtime stuff to a folder
      • copy the desktop entry over
      • copy app data when chosen

      And the same thing to copy it from the stick to a live system. Should work, probably not haha

      • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
        4·
        8 months ago

        TIP: Flatpak have a build-in way for creating USB, check out the “flatpak --help”.

        But the point is with Appimage all that have to be installed is FUSE, which is expected to be installed on most installs when you go to a friend or work where Linux is used.

        • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
          2·
          8 months ago

          Oh nice!

          Flatpak also works everywhere and appimages are not ported to fuse3…

          I mean I want to think Appimages where nice, and they are kinda, but no.