Universal package managers have taken over Linux... Atleast, one of them has, and that ended up being Flatpak. In this video, we go over why Linux users love...
There’s an appimaged daemon you can install that will manage them, and it watches a bunch of folders to integrate appimages with xdg and whatever window manager you’ve got. ~/Applications looks like an easy pick, or ~/.local/bin.
Appimages you decide to keep you can just move there!
Just not snaps.
AppImage and flatpak are fine though
Whats wrong with snaps? My only “issue” with appimages is i tend to leave them in my downloads folder and lose them
snaps are essentially ubuntu-only
I have an ~/app directory for appimages
Ty for both
There’s an appimaged daemon you can install that will manage them, and it watches a bunch of folders to integrate appimages with xdg and whatever window manager you’ve got.
~/Applicationslooks like an easy pick, or~/.local/bin.Appimages you decide to keep you can just move there!
The snap store is a shit show of security issues.
Forced migration to snaps.
Performance issues.
Proprietary back end.
Slow to install
Slow to start
Eat up RAM
Eat up disk space
They screw up access to devices.
They automatically update themselves without user confirmation.
Fuck snaps. Fuck Canonical.
My issues with snaps are:
I didn’t realize, damn.
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