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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
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.
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!
Why do you keep appimages? I don't do that and now I'm wondering if I do something wrong. But I try to install from repos as much as possible.
The appImage is the program. If you don't keep it, you don't have the program.
I'm sorry, I was an idiot. I thought appimages are debs when I made the comment.
I've used one or two tools that only distribute for my system as an appimage or as source code.
I can't always be bothered to set up a compilation environment or deal with removing dependencies.
I only use one or two regularly, but it's nice to have them integrated!
I prefer from the distro's repos, then source, then flatpack, then appimage. Sometimes you have to take what you can get!
snaps are essentially ubuntu-only
I have an ~/app directory for appimages
Ty for both
That's why I whenever I download an appimage that I intend to use somewhat regurarly, I typically make a .desktop file for it in /usr/share/applications so it shows up in my app menu or rofi or dmenu or whatever and I don't have to go looking for it. It also helps to have a folder you toss them all into
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