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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
"You will most likely get a malicious AppImage from some website because there is no default central store with such packages." - No. Just no. If you download the AppImage directly from its original author's website, then you
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
imho the only way to get this solved is users and app developers using a community based format that is not owned by the operating system companies
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
It depends on how often the stuff in the packages gets updated, not on the package format.
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
Have you read the article? AppImage wins by a factor of two to three in terms of speed and size, runs on both Red Hat and Ubuntu. I'd say it is more universal than the distro-made formats.
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
Why do you find them annoying? I love them. Every application is just one file that I can freely move and copy around, can't be any simpler than that.
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
The AppImage is still twice as fast as the Flatpak, and three times as fast as the Snap. So it can't be the application itself, can it?
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
3 seconds (AppImage) vs. 7 seconds (Flatpak) vs. 13 seconds (Snap) is a HUGE difference for me. No matter how modern the hardware
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by loginwithgithub 7y ago
You can run multiple different versions alongside each other, and you are not restricted to the version that your distribution happens to carry which is often outdated. Also, this gives you access to development snapshots