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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)
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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Turns out I came here to say the same thing as everyone.

AppImages are not in the same competition.
They have different uses and you would mostly not find out how many people are using them due to their nature of being very useful offline.