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Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users) (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No. I’m telling you that they won’t maintain it properly.

Not when it’s a reskinned cura fork. There marlin (printer firmware- nominally more important) versions are old too… last I checked, by years.

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