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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    9 months ago

    (Also Flatpaks are, at least in theory, sandboxed and can’t mess with your system stuff unless you allow them to)

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      9 months ago

      Not yet.

      The permissions are too comlicated (unlike “allow documents access” on Mac for example)

      And there is no Desktop GUI integration for opt-in to permissions. So install, open Flatseal / KDEs settings, harden, then run.