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Use AppImage + firejail (optionally, to fully sandbox AppImage)

I want to like AppImage, but it is just unreasonable that there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded.

> there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded

Here it is.[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

[1] https://docs.appimage.org/reference/desktop-integration.html

I've tried AppImage, Flatpack, and Snap, and AppImage is the only one that approaches tolerable.

Tried Nixpkgs?

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