GitHub - trytomakeyouprivate/dont-use-appimages: Appimages are an insecure packaging system with very limited use cases. Please use Flatpak instead!
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Appimages are an insecure packaging system with very limited use cases. Please use Flatpak instead! - trytomakeyouprivate/dont-use-appimages

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.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I preferred a clean slate Debian installation. I had other Flatpaks with doubled version dependencies as well, which I got rid of. I believe that we should opt for the most frictionless workflow, and use best tool for a job. (Of course 🖕 to anti-privacy stuff as much as feasible.)

    Two nice Debian+Windows 7/10AME machines with lots of privacy, solid security and a great amount of freedom😌 feels like Pareto frontier is achieved, but still want to see if minimal modifications can make things even better, so I could update my Linux/Windows computing guide.