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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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[–] 10 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Recently I wanted to uninstall $thing. Couldn’t via the package manager. I had forgotten that it wasn’t a native package. So what was it? *scratches head* Flatpak, snap or Appimage? Aw damn, it’s an AppImage. Now where did I put the binary? *scratches head*.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Maybe you would like appimagelauncher. It allows you to define a directory for storing your appimages and you just put them in there and you can automatically launch it from the system menu as if they were installed apps. It also makes removing them easier, since they're all in the same directory and you just remove them and the shortcuts get deleted as well

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    The fluxer appimage will 'install' itself into /opt/ without your knowledge. I think because it's essentially an electron package similar to stoat, standard notes and discord, large parts of it can self-update without needing to bump the actual package version, but this is really shitty behaviour considering what appimages are designed to do.

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