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Why Flatpak Won and Snap and AppImage Didn't. - Cameron Knauff (youtube.com)

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[–] aloofPenguin@piefed.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd agree with that sentiment, but at least for me, if we went with all flatpacks, i'd be losing the one ability that I like about appimages, which is as a one-time-use type of "installation". They're kind of like those windows EXEs that you could just run in place without needing to install. very useful for stuff like raspberrypi imager where I don't need to keep it around much

[–] morto@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

appimages also allow some sort of portable apps you can carry around. Very useful for dealing with no internet scenarios. I also use appimages for things iI use very rarely and don't want to bother to have them being updated regularly along with the system