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.

  • 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