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.

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    10 months ago

    AppImages can be signed. Flat pak is the lesser option for security

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      10 months ago

      Explained in a other comment how a pain it is to verify such a signature.

      Is that stored in the appimage file?

      I find it funny how flatpak neglectors always spell it wrong