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[-] med@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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!

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.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

The appImage is the program. If you don't keep it, you don't have the program.

[-] DirtPuddleMisfortune@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm sorry, I was an idiot. I thought appimages are debs when I made the comment.

[-] med@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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!

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