Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively.

Their use case is tiny, and in 99% of cases Flatpak is just better.

I could not find a single post or article about all the problems they have, so I wrote this.

This is not about shaming open source contributors. But Appimages are obviously broken, pretty badly maintained, while organizations/companies like Balena, Nextcloud etc. don’t seem to get that.

  • FuglyDuck
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    34 months ago

    That’s a creality problem. Not an appimage problem.

    They’d have a just as shitty flatpak or whatever else they used; because that’s how the company is.

    • @db2@lemmy.world
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      14 months ago

      Are you trying to tell me creality is the only one who would ever embed a library in an appimage? Isn’t that supposed to be half the point, that it comes with what it needs?

      • FuglyDuck
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        4 months ago

        No. I’m telling you that they won’t maintain it properly.

        Not when it’s a reskinned cura fork. There marlin (printer firmware- nominally more important) versions are old too… last I checked, by years.