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[–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I don't know if it's still the case, but up to a couple of years ago, Flatpak was configured so that externally mounted folders were not accessible. I discovered that when Steam on flatpak refused to install games on my hdd, and it was quite frustrating to figure out how to enable it. Still, it's difficult to criticize how "bloated" are electron apps (they are) when I need to download 2GB or runtime for an 80MB telegram binary

Snaps integration is even worse as I've seen browser extensions state they straight don't work on snap's browsers. Also desktop integration on gnone (even files drag and drop between snaps) are broken on the ubuntu installations I tried.

Appimages have the least drawbacks and are my preferred methods between the three (at least they take less storage space than an equivalent Flarpak for some reason, but are still broken sometimes), yet they still miss a central package repository, and that's a big problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    yet they still miss a central package repository, and that’s a big problem.

    https://github.com/ivan-hc/AM

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    It's a package repository, but I would hardly call it "central"

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Well, upstream is now considering either merging or just pointing to the AM repository because it is bigger and better maintained.

    https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/issues/3595

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