> you pretty much have an AppImage already That's not wrong, but AppImage is focused on the UX of the application as single file, which you can move/copy aroun

> you pretty much have an AppImage already That's not wrong, but AppImage is focused on the UX of the application as single file, which you can move/copy around and can be integrated with the desktop launcher, which i personally don't know of standard solutions for with a classic tarball. For example, Tor Browser is a classic tarball and works great, but the .desktop generation relies on some hacks rather than a properly-defined mechanism. > the author was complaining about the complexity introduced by Proton That's not what i understood from the article. I mean wine/proton makes sense on its own to run Windows apps, i think the author was criticizing that their specific approach relies on steam-specific runtimes instead of using system libraries.