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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
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[–] chocrates@piefed.world 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Whats wrong with snaps? My only "issue" with appimages is i tend to leave them in my downloads folder and lose them

[–] alfredon996@feddit.it 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My issues with snaps are:

  • The server software is closed source and centralized
  • They create many block devices that can slow down booting the PC.
[–] chocrates@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago

I didn't realize, damn.

[–] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The snap store is a shit show of security issues.

Forced migration to snaps.

Performance issues.

Proprietary back end.

Slow to install

Slow to start

Eat up RAM

Eat up disk space

They screw up access to devices.

They automatically update themselves without user confirmation.

Fuck snaps. Fuck Canonical.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 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!

[–] DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 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.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The appImage is the program. If you don't keep it, you don't have the program.

[–] DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I'm sorry, I was an idiot. I thought appimages are debs when I made the comment.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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!

[–] Damage@feddit.it 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

snaps are essentially ubuntu-only

I have an ~/app directory for appimages

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 1 points 2 months ago

Ty for both

[–] asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Gearlevel is a good app to tidy up the Appimage apss.