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.

  • Tiger Jerusalem@lemmy.world
    1916·
    10 months ago

    Appimages are awesome for the regular user. Single file, just double click to run anywhere. Snap and Flatpak should die a quick death and all the work should be used to improve Appimages. There’s no other concept for the end user as simple and clear as this.

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      83·
      10 months ago

      I double clicked, the program didn’t run because it’s missing some dependencies

    • Yubishi@lemmy.one
      4·
      10 months ago

      They mimic the apple application format to some degree and it is a great way to distribute. The real detriment is sandboxing but with more support this could be included.