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His continuing hatred for Linux Mint (disguised as "old distro, old libraries") to not support it, kind of bothers me. Mint users are the ones who would need this shortcut more than a seasoned user.
Also, this appimage is not well done, it's hardcoded to libfuse2.so, and so even Debian-Testing doesn't work (that only has libfuse3).
It also has this "Matt" guy's recents hard-coded into the appimage lmao
no actually the library thing is always a factor it's exhausting to get in a pile of irrelevant packaging issues reported for some distro that doesn't fulfill required dependencies . those issues need to go to the packager instead. or they just have to accept using 3 year old applications
Mint is less than 2 years old, that's NOT old enough to say "I won't support it". If Microsoft was doing the same with Windows, they would never succeed. Compatibility is a big, big thing, and as I said, it's users who use Mint that require his Appimage, not an Arch seasoned user. He misses the point. Just let him bundle more dependencies. It's already 1.25 GB the package, what if it was 1.3 GB? Not a big difference.