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Flatpak’s Future May Leave Non-systemd Distros Behind (linuxiac.com)
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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I don't hate AppImages, but they're not as convenient as Flatpak

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    How? I dont think its possible to be more convenient than an AppImage.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    How do you know an update has been released? How do you upgrade it?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Gear Lever?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That's interesting, so it requires flatpak to install, but why would you when you already use flatpak?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    To use App Images! :D

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    For when the devs provide app image but not flatpak or are app images somehow better?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    That or if you're running an immutable distro like Bazzite and there's an app image available because it's easier than setting up OS-tree layering etc.

    Or you just want an easy way to update app images lol

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    AppImages don't go in Discover with all my other programs. They don't auto update, no review system, no way to cleanup the files they created when uninstalling, I have to manually add shortcuts to my app launcher. Also Flatseal is pretty cool.

    I've tried Gear Lever, but in my experience it hasn't ever succeeded in updating an AppImage for me. And it's kind of awkward giving it an AppImage file so it can move the file, instead of the download and the installation being the same single action.

    One thing a lot of people don't know about Flatpak is that you can get .flatpakref files like Kdenlive uses for their daily builds. Very cool!

    https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/kdenlive-nightly/org.kde.kdenlive.flatpakref

    https://kdenlive.org/download/

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