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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Some of these apps can't work as flatpaks at all, because they require more access to the system, e.g. Davinci Resolve. AppImage allows that. I mean, heck, even Ubuntu runs a virtual filesystem in order to allow its Snap Firefox to access the Dictionary that lives "outside" its sandboxing. So, yes, there are cases where AppImages do serve a purpose. Not most cases, but a lot of cases.
because they require more access to the system
afaik, you can allow more system access to flatpaks
Ubuntu runs a virtual filesystem in order to allow its Snap Firefox to access the Dictionary that lives "outside" its sandboxing
i believe flatpak also does that, you can specify some paths from the host to be available to the flatpak
Are these access problems not solvable with XDG portals?
Have a look at GPU screen recorder, I think thats as much privileges as you need.
XDG-desktop portals are not yet complete. But for filesystem access and GPU de/encoding that should already work.
If the Davinci Resolve devs actually cared about Linux...
Have a look at GPU screen recorder, I think thats as much privileges as you need.
XDG-desktop portals are not yet complete. But for filesystem access and GPU de/encoding that should already work.
If the Davinci Resolve devs actually cared about Linux... I think the best way to run it is using uBlues image on Podman.