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Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users) (github.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Some of these apps can't work as flatpaks at all, because they require more access to the system, e.g. Davinci Resolve. AppImage allows that. I mean, heck, even Ubuntu runs a virtual filesystem in order to allow its Snap Firefox to access the Dictionary that lives "outside" its sandboxing. So, yes, there are cases where AppImages do serve a purpose. Not most cases, but a lot of cases.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

because they require more access to the system

afaik, you can allow more system access to flatpaks

Ubuntu runs a virtual filesystem in order to allow its Snap Firefox to access the Dictionary that lives "outside" its sandboxing

i believe flatpak also does that, you can specify some paths from the host to be available to the flatpak

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Are these access problems not solvable with XDG portals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Have a look at GPU screen recorder, I think thats as much privileges as you need.

XDG-desktop portals are not yet complete. But for filesystem access and GPU de/encoding that should already work.

If the Davinci Resolve devs actually cared about Linux...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Have a look at GPU screen recorder, I think thats as much privileges as you need.

XDG-desktop portals are not yet complete. But for filesystem access and GPU de/encoding that should already work.

If the Davinci Resolve devs actually cared about Linux... I think the best way to run it is using uBlues image on Podman.