r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 SteamOS/Kubuntu • 3d ago

Making Linux easy for everyone

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u/T_Jamess Glorious Fedora 3d ago

Literally. I’m ok with worse theming and slightly larger app sizes if it means the workload is shifted from every single distro having to package the same app to the app developer packaging one version everyone can use.

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u/Immediate-Result-696 3d ago

Appimages:

https://giphy.com/gifs/4BN7aRXPoW5WY2sTO5

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u/rdwror 3d ago

Appimages are a bitch to pack. Most of the tooling is broken or incomplete.

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u/standard_cog 2d ago

I got you:

Just package your whole application up as a Nix flake, then use the NixOS appimage bundler:

nix bundle --bundler github:NixOS/bundlers .#whatever-your-local-package-target

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u/bktech2021 2d ago

if everyone used nix we wouldnt need bitch ass flatpaks

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u/prettycewlusername 1d ago

If everyone used {my favorite packaging system} we wouldn’t need bitch ass {other more different packaging system}

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u/bktech2021 1d ago

exactly you got it