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Depending on the qualities your after, AppImage is also really great. Advantages over Flatpak are that they are completely portable (you can store them anywhere
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Depending on the qualities your after, AppImage is also really great. Advantages over Flatpak are that they are completely portable (you can store them anywhere and run them from anywhere), and they don't require a special runtime or package management infrastructure of any kind.
- solarkraft 6y agoAppImages are basically (kind of) statically linked binaries. Not my favorite to install software since they're usually huge (500mb is not far out of the norm), but great for things that are hard to install, as they're pretty much guaranteed to work. I just wish there was a command line switch to stop it from wanting to install itself on my system (move the AppImage to /opt).
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoI have never seen that behavior from an AppImage. I just mark them executable and run them and they do their thing. If there is a specific AppImage behaving this way then it is probably the fault of the author, and if all of them are doing it then I wonder if it is the behavior of something like appimaged?