Appimages, snaps and flatpaks, which one do you prefer and why?

  • amanneedsamaid
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    1 year ago

    Flatpak and Appimages. Flatpaks are the best solution IMO, just better than snaps in about every setting except servers. Appimages are great simply because of their easy portability, just being a single executable. I like having GUI apps in Flatpaks because it separates the updates for those applications from my package manager.

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      1 year ago

      The advantages you speak about AppImages quickly fade away when you consider how much slower apps launch.

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        1 year ago

        True, I barely ever use them (Yubikey manager is most easily offered via AppImage). I only actively use Flatpaks. I think AppImages should exist though, as the portability aspect could be useful (Syncthing syncing a directory with all your applications to different machines, etc.)