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.
i think those kids got a point – app stores are easier than finding random executables on the web
it can sometimes be a pain to find the original developper’s website to get a legitimate copy of the software from, especially for non-technical users.
the main issue with app stores is that they’re often closed ecosystems, where there’s only one app provider. that’s not the case with flatpatk!