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.

  • yukijoou@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    because they require more access to the system

    afaik, you can allow more system access to flatpaks

    Ubuntu runs a virtual filesystem in order to allow its Snap Firefox to access the Dictionary that lives “outside” its sandboxing

    i believe flatpak also does that, you can specify some paths from the host to be available to the flatpak