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Flatpak is still alive and well: it's commercially supported by Red Hat and has quite a following, especially in the GNOME world. It's last release was last mon

Flatpak is still alive and well: it's commercially supported by Red Hat and has quite a following, especially in the GNOME world. It's last release was last month. Usually a user of Debian packages, I must admit that for desktop use Flatpak is a very slick solution.

Animats 4y ago
Yeah, but I don't want to buy into the Flatpak vs Snap war. Does anyone still use AppImage, or is it dying out?
- mid-kid 4y ago
  AppImages are still widely used, it's just that the tooling surrounding them sucks. At the end of the day, they're glorified zip files, not much different to self-extracting .exe files, and you'll have to figure out what libraries your application needs to run on various distros. Some bundlers attempt to do this for you but they're not infallible, so be prepared to test in different VMs.
  - Animats 4y ago
    > AppImages are still widely used, it's just that the tooling surrounding them sucks. I just discovered that the hard way.[1] [1] https://users.rust-lang.org/t/packaging-a-rust-application-for-end-users/92542/4 https://users.rust-lang.org/t/packaging-a-rust-application-f...
- mid-kid 4y ago
  As a side-note, the snap vs flatpak war is essentially canonical vs everyone else. It's easy enough to install flatpak on ubuntu distros, it's harder to install snap on some other distros where flatpak works wonders. If you're worried, you can also just, do both. A packaging overhead of 2 is still better than maintaining your own distro- and version-specific packages, unless you submit it to the distros yourself or get others to package it for you.