Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)
Don't use Appimages (a writeup about all the reasons they are a pain for users)
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.
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Agree. But support by distros would make them acceptable. Only if they tick the basic security requirements of a repo, actual maintenance and download verification, this should be done.
Icons on Wayland are not possible, because of security. Apps could spawn a window that looks like Chromium and ask for a password, for example.
Do they need desktop entries, DEs should absolutely not create them for those apps.
Yes I think I touched the library issue a bit, but this is really bad. There is no updating system that could tell you what apps are affected too.