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I haven't "pretended otherwise" or evangelized anything, please don't make these accusations at me. I can only offer you suggestions on what to do, I'm not goin

I haven't "pretended otherwise" or evangelized anything, please don't make these accusations at me. I can only offer you suggestions on what to do, I'm not going to argue about what the "right" way to do is as that's simply not interesting to me. The vast majority of Linux distributions may not do things the "right" way but they also support AppImages, so use that to your advantage. If you had no success in getting upstream to make AppImages then you'll have to make them yourself. It seems that's what a lot of flatpak and snap packagers ended up doing, just my observation. To put this another way: We can sit here making the same complaints about Ubuntu and RHEL that have been made for decades, but what's the point? Let's do something about it. And if that doing something means we turn the whole system into AppImages, then... what else would you really want? It sounds like your problem would then be solved.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> I can only offer you suggestions on what to do, Why are you doing that? I clearly neither asked for, nor want your suggestions! That's why you come off as an evangelist.
- cycloptic 6y ago
  It seems like you were having trouble with your Linux filesystem so I'm offering solutions that I've seen or heard of. Is there something else I can offer that would work better for you, or am I misunderstanding what the complaint is? Edit: If you weren't asking for help with this that's fine, however some other interested reader may want to hear the suggestions. Feel free to ignore me.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
    I am deeply concerned about your inability to understand what is happening in this thread. Let me break it down for you: - User posts that they wish Windows filesystem organization was "nice" like Linux's - I express doubt that anyone can consider Linux's filesystem organization "nice" - You start telling me about AppImages and how even though very nearly every single distro on the planet organizes files a certain way, it isn't technically required to do so. Please explain to me why you think your continued "help" and "suggestions" should be something I value? I am not "having trouble with my Linux filesystem organization", I am straight-up criticizing the way nearly every distro that exists organizes files. That's a very different thing.
    - cycloptic 6y ago
      Please don't make these insulting and condescending comments, this is against the site guidelines. If you think my understanding is wrong then just explain it, you don't have to insult me. Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. AppImages (or really any similar packaging method) also technically run on very nearly every single distro on the planet so if those were improved, it seems like that would change some of your criticism. You don't have to value my suggestions, that's why they're suggestions and not requirements. Although I guess I don't understand, where is your criticism coming from if not from a period of past or current frustration with the filesystem organization? I'm only responding to the criticism as you wrote it because I think there are ways that the core problem can be solved. From the point of view of how we solve it, it doesn't seem like it is a different thing. Does that make sense?
      - AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
        > Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. ...which is irrelevant, because the original poster I was responding to is saying that the current standard is nice, and I was disagreeing.
        cycloptic 6y ago
        So just to be clear, what would be relevant to you and what could be done to solve this? Since you already knew about AppImages and consider them a solution, could we say your criticism is essentially that not enough applications are using AppImages? (And if you were wondering, I am not associated with AppImages in any way, I'm just another person trying to talk to you about problems on Linux)
        AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
        I am not interested in this discussion, as I have had it dozens of times (probably hundreds over the past 20 years) and find the effort tedious.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

> I can only offer you suggestions on what to do, Why are you doing that? I clearly neither asked for, nor want your suggestions! That's why you come off as an evangelist.

cycloptic 6y ago
It seems like you were having trouble with your Linux filesystem so I'm offering solutions that I've seen or heard of. Is there something else I can offer that would work better for you, or am I misunderstanding what the complaint is? Edit: If you weren't asking for help with this that's fine, however some other interested reader may want to hear the suggestions. Feel free to ignore me.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
  I am deeply concerned about your inability to understand what is happening in this thread. Let me break it down for you: - User posts that they wish Windows filesystem organization was "nice" like Linux's - I express doubt that anyone can consider Linux's filesystem organization "nice" - You start telling me about AppImages and how even though very nearly every single distro on the planet organizes files a certain way, it isn't technically required to do so. Please explain to me why you think your continued "help" and "suggestions" should be something I value? I am not "having trouble with my Linux filesystem organization", I am straight-up criticizing the way nearly every distro that exists organizes files. That's a very different thing.
  - cycloptic 6y ago
    Please don't make these insulting and condescending comments, this is against the site guidelines. If you think my understanding is wrong then just explain it, you don't have to insult me. Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. AppImages (or really any similar packaging method) also technically run on very nearly every single distro on the planet so if those were improved, it seems like that would change some of your criticism. You don't have to value my suggestions, that's why they're suggestions and not requirements. Although I guess I don't understand, where is your criticism coming from if not from a period of past or current frustration with the filesystem organization? I'm only responding to the criticism as you wrote it because I think there are ways that the core problem can be solved. From the point of view of how we solve it, it doesn't seem like it is a different thing. Does that make sense?
    - AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
      > Again, there are solutions to these problems and there are people who are working on making it "nice" for whatever your definition of that term is. ...which is irrelevant, because the original poster I was responding to is saying that the current standard is nice, and I was disagreeing.
      - cycloptic 6y ago
        So just to be clear, what would be relevant to you and what could be done to solve this? Since you already knew about AppImages and consider them a solution, could we say your criticism is essentially that not enough applications are using AppImages? (And if you were wondering, I am not associated with AppImages in any way, I'm just another person trying to talk to you about problems on Linux)
        AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
        I am not interested in this discussion, as I have had it dozens of times (probably hundreds over the past 20 years) and find the effort tedious.