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I've encountered appimages a few time and wasn't really convinced. Maybe I'm missing something but here's what I found annoying:

- need to move the x.appimage somewhere in your $PATH

- need to create an alias like nvim.appimage -> nvim

- no way to automatically update

- the application isn't listed in your application list on ubuntu

On the other hand `sudo snap install nvim --classic` brings me all of the above without any work from me

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Snap and flatpak run a daemon to integrate into your system. Appimage has an optional daemon to give you the same integration https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage

Handles making it executable, automatic upgrades, no need to move it to your $PATH, and adds the application to your app list.

Only other thing you might want to do is symlink a friendly name for cli

These are entirely solvable problems, at least. Just sounds like the UX isn’t there yet.

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