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      3 years ago

      They are even worse, since they don’t come with an update mechanism builtin.

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        3 years ago

        That’s the main thing I don’t like about app images. It is just like windows where everything needs to be updated independently.

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        3 years ago

        Flatpacks don’t update themselves either, you need a system service to do that. Something similar exists for Appimages, called AppimageUpdate without requiring an appstore for it.

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          AppImages don’t integrate into the system at all and AppImageUpdate sucks.

          Also flatpak update go brrrr

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            Appimages are well integrated in Manjaro for example. You click on it to and you automatically get the choice to have it installed with menu links and all.

            I can only assume you never properly used Appimages as they are surely better then installing a full Fedora runtime environment just to run a basic app as in the case of Flatpack.

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              AH really? What DE? I guess everyone should use Manjaro. For me, I have to right click, run as executable. Firefox doesn’t work, Pling icon looks like shit, can’t update them without using a poorly made updater program. No thanks!

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                3 years ago

                KDE.

                Why on earth would you run Firefox via an Appimage? All these container formats are only good for apps that are not up to date / available in the distribution’s repository, and Firefox certainly is.

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        3 years ago

        That’s the main thing I don’t like about app images. It is just like windows where everything needs to be updated independently.