β² 1096 βΌ Snap bad (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago by deathmetal27@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 230 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child) I'd say that complete lack of a single consistent way to manage updates. I really don't feel having to micromanage each piece of software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago AppImage is meant to be updated using the embedded zsync info the runtime, that is the user should never have to open the app to update it. The user needs to have something like AM, appimagelauncher or appimaged that is then able to parse the info and update the appimages using appimageupdatetool This method also provides delta updates, meaning it doesn't download the entire app but only a diff, see this test with CPU-X where it downloaded 2.65 MiB to update the app: TLDR: https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago AppImage is meant to be updated using the embedded zsync info the runtime, that is the user should never have to open the app to update it. The user needs to have something like AM, appimagelauncher or appimaged that is then able to parse the info and update the appimages using appimageupdatetool This method also provides delta updates, meaning it doesn't download the entire app but only a diff, see this test with CPU-X where it downloaded 2.65 MiB to update the app: TLDR: https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM permalink fedilink source parent
