Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively.
Their use case is tiny, and in 99% of cases Flatpak is just better.
I could not find a single post or article about all the problems they have, so I wrote this.
This is not about shaming open source contributors. But Appimages are obviously broken, pretty badly maintained, while organizations/companies like Balena, Nextcloud etc. don’t seem to get that.
Lucky kids. I remember when I switched to Linux and encountered my first app store (Synaptic). That was already such a huge improvement over random
.exes, and app stores today are way, way better.Damn even i was impressed by apt install command so much the first time
Package managers are fine. Walled gardens are not.
Absolutely. Luckily there are plenty of non-walled garden solutions on Linux, e.g. Flatpak.
I mean, snap could also be not. Just somebody needs to write a wrapper that allows to download, verify etc. .snap packages from other repos.
Shitty move of Canonical for sure.