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While not statically linked necessarily, app images do attempt to bundle dependencies such that they “just work” as self-contained executables on most Linux distros - which is what the poster above seems to care about.

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Yes, this was what I meant! For most users (at least for this user), it gives essentially the same outcome.

Which causes the aforementioned ballooning storage issue.

The ballooning storage issue was mentioned along with Flatpak, and is an issue as every single dependency is pulled in. AppImage excludes those dependencies which are "reasonably expected" to be on any Linux system. See the Application Sizes section here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/866511/what-are-the-differen...

Example: LibreOffice download size (source)

  - AppImage ~248 MByte  
  - Snap      463 MByte [July 2020 update]  
  - Flatpak   543 MByte

EDIT: formatting

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