Appimages are an insecure packaging system with very limited use cases. Please use Flatpak instead! - trytomakeyouprivate/dont-use-appimages
Appimages totally suck, because many developers think they were a real packaging format and support them exclusively.
Their use case is tiny, and in 99% of cases Flatpak is just better.
I could not find a single post or article about all the problems they have, so I wrote this.
This is not about shaming open source contributors. But Appimages are obviously broken, pretty badly maintained, while organizations/companies like Balena, Nextcloud etc. don't seem to get that.
What the hell are you talking about? Did you even read the post? They literally praise native package managers, statically linked binaries and even .tar archives over appimages. If you don't have any actual arguments against their point, you don't have to make shit up, you know? Using BS ad hominem to dismiss someones opinion isn't a great look.
Lucky kids. I remember when I switched to Linux and encountered my first app store (Synaptic). That was already such a huge improvement over random .exes, and app stores today are way, way better.
i think those kids got a point -- app stores are easier than finding random executables on the web
it can sometimes be a pain to find the original developper's website to get a legitimate copy of the software from, especially for non-technical users.
the main issue with app stores is that they're often closed ecosystems, where there's only one app provider. that's not the case with flatpatk!
And yours is from people who are missing any security awareness and think windows is great because you can double click any executable and don’t need to waste any thought on isolation and privileges.