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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    Okay fair point. Piracy, illegal content etc. will all get removed from Flathub.

    Similar to another comment about archiving software that may get removed

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      Well you can just put a flatpac on a website and let download it from their right?

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        Yea im pretty sure flatpak suports bundles that you can install directly, just like an appimage

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        You can, but it seems to be not documented how to get a .flatpak from an installed app.