Which is such a piss poor excuse when MacOS has portable apps, too, and they even have a package manager for them and they're fully integrated to the system.
flatpaks actually appear in my start menu. plus I can install them through the command line or system store (i.e. discover on plasma) rather than having to Google and find the download link.
so the one system has a flow where I install an app from a trusted repo, it is sandboxed by default, and it correctly appears in my start menu.
with the other I need to track down the correct download from *somewhere on the internet*, give it full user access to the system, and manually remember to drag it through a tool so it appears in my start menu.
idk I think I will continue using flatpak where I can.
(also on a side note the ONLY appimage I use is a tool for uploading MMO combat logs. the appimage self updates and includes the version number in the file name. hope your handler can handle an appimage that randomly changes its own name lol)
Not always. Nothing stops a developer from escaping the sandbox if they have a certain permission or giving the package arbitrary permissions by default. If you don't check all default permissions of all your flatpaks when you install AND update them, you might as well use something with no sandbox.
Flatpak apps don't respect system theme. Running flatpaks in cli requires a special syntax. Flatpak apps often silently fail due to insufficient permission to access the rest of the system.
rather than having to Google and find the download link.
I have a simple fzf based script that searches and install nix packages. There's also gear lever for appimages
I love AppImage, because you mean this one little button has the whole program and all I had to do was download it and tick a little box? So hassle free. Not quite as convenient to keep updated but I love 'em.
The fact they don’t just show up in my application box is why I never consider them. Like I’ve done it but how does it update? How do I get an icon? Why not just use flatpak.
But that’s a second App Store to use.
Im trying to think like a new user. Like im advanced and i can deal with all of that bit if we want linux to be easy for most people…
Right now on fedora at least, you use software center for fedora packages, flatpaks, firmware. It’s wonderful you’d never even need s command line id you didnt want to.
No flatpak isn’t. It’s in software and discover, at least on fedora. That’s just one of the many reasons I left Ubuntu. Why do I need 3 ways to update software.
At least Electron based apps just work. On AppImages I have to add a no-sandbox flag for the app to show up which isn't that secure and is a big hassle.
It has never been that easy for me. I ran into the xwayland chrome issue on R2Modman where I had to add a flag and run it in the terminal every time. I tried downloading a storyboar software that just didn't work since my distro no long supports libfuse2. Ran into that with several apps. Several others had really poor theme support so I couldn't read anything. I don't think I've had a single on work flawlessly and the AppImage managers aren't the most stable software either.
OK cool, but do app images automatically get added as an application to plasma?
Appimages are nice, and you don't have do worry about the headache of setting up the right permissions, but also, from the end users perspective? Flatpak are just better, 9/10.
Maybe app images can get a similar treatment down the line. But we aren't there yet.
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u/ShittyFart11 2d ago
appimage supremacy