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AppImage is great, definitely the best of the bunch.

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AppImage solves the packaging problem in a bad way (ugh, loopback mounts), but does not solve the dependency problem, try run AppImages compiled for Ubuntu on Fedora..

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The main use case for appimage imo is things you just want to run once quickly and easily. Trying beta builds from github releases for example. It's quite poor for anything you frequently use or want to keep updated. It's also completely lacking security iirc which Flatpak does well.

AppImage is far from great, the great one is having a foundation that doesn't break every 5 years and programs relying on that foundation.

AppImage is just the least bad solution - if nothing else it doesn't need some weird infrastructure to run. As a developer you just upload the binary to your site and as a user you just download the binary and run it.

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