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.
AppImage is a nice way to have an app on an USB stick, remote server or for archival. But for normal app usage, why?
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
And the same thing to copy it from the stick to a live system. Should work, probably not haha
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.
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.