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

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[–] robbo@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

app images need to not be called app images. first time seeing it it sounds like some macos thing. but even still I don't see why they get compared so much to flatpak and snap when they are completely different.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

They serve the same purpose: Install software, that’s not in your distro‘s repository.