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Appimages, snaps and flatpaks
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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I prefer flatpacks. There's nothing wrong per se about snaps, it's just that they are kinda slow, and Canonical is untrustworthy.
Appimages are to be avoided, imo. They are no better than downloading random crap like on Windows.
The vast majority of flatpaks are not made by the developers of the software. I could fork any software that is not in flathub, make modifications without permission, bundle a flatpak and distribute it as the official version. You would be none the wiser about it.
Well to be fair you can also download random flatpacks or debs or what from a website
You can sign AppImages.