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Why AppImage over Flatpack? I like the Flatpack ability to easily restrict network access to binaries. Probably possibly in all of the packaging formats, but li
by 0cf8612b2e1e 4y ago
Why AppImage over Flatpack? I like the Flatpack ability to easily restrict network access to binaries. Probably possibly in all of the packaging formats, but limiting permissions feels like a functional piece of Flatpack.
- bayindirh 4y agoBecause AppImages need no daemons and plumbing. They are self contained binaries which contain everything it needs to run. Running a big infra to run a single binary once in a while feels like a burden to some of us.
- viraptor 4y agoFlatpak also doesn't need daemons beyond what the app is using.
- bayindirh 4y agoYet you need to install flatpak package and its dependencies to run flatpak applications. Not to mention the flatpak package contains a four ".service." files, too. They might not be triggered and launched all the time, but this mode of operation is different from .appimage files, which are just ordinary binary files you directly run.