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AppImage has issues. The guy from Suse who does MicroOS, Richard Brown, a few years ago was literally walking around giving talk about how bad Flatpak was and how everybody should use AppImage.

In his most recent talk he basically said, he was wrong, the Flatpak people did address most of the issue he had and AppImage was no viable.

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/containerised_apps/

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AppImage still just works, just like tarball bundles without dependency on 3rd party infrastructure and overengineered solutions like snap and flatpak.

The talk I linked suggest this isn't the case.

I haven't watched the talk (yet), but I use a number of app images and they have always "just worked" and in remarkable fashion. My only complaint is that you sometimes have to write the .desktop yourself if you want it launchable through the UI, but that's a fairly trivial objection.

> ometimes have to write the .desktop yourself if you want it launchable through the UI

I even don't have to manually write them, KDE has kmenuedit.

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