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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

There's an appimaged daemon you can install that will manage them, and it watches a bunch of folders to integrate appimages with xdg and whatever window manager you've got. ~/Applications looks like an easy pick, or ~/.local/bin.

Appimages you decide to keep you can just move there!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Why do you keep appimages? I don't do that and now I'm wondering if I do something wrong. But I try to install from repos as much as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    I've used one or two tools that only distribute for my system as an appimage or as source code.

    I can't always be bothered to set up a compilation environment or deal with removing dependencies.

    I only use one or two regularly, but it's nice to have them integrated!

    I prefer from the distro's repos, then source, then flatpack, then appimage. Sometimes you have to take what you can get!

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