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I know Snap maybe offered tighter sandboxing, but why didnt AppImage take off? It seems like it solves the problems of deb/rmp/etc war and is easy to create fo

• e2le 6y ago
  I much prefer AppImage, just recently I created one that packaged an old windows game and included the required dependencies (wine, libopenal, etc). Starting the AppImage is as simple as "./game.AppImage" and in theory would work on any Linux distribution. I think it has good potential for preservation of old applications and video games. AppImage is awesome.
• the_why_of_y 6y ago
  AppImage is not at all easy to create for app devs because there's no SDK, unlike FlatPak and Snap.