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When it comes to #Linux and packages for the user, #Flatpak for when you need shared dependencies and #AppImage for when you need a portable app. Basically we've already solved both the "app store" and "downloadable executable" problems.
Snaps could compete, if it supported third party repos OOB and wasn't a vendor lock-in situation, but if and buts were candies and nuts...
Flatpaks, Snaps, & AppImages: "Do we really need these Universal App For...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=so_f6OtRWRo
@hopland For as long as you have to open properties and check a checkbox, and then it doesn't automatically get added to your apps list, then it's not solved, I would say. AppImage is good, but something needs to be done to make them usable by everyone, I think.
@forteller #AppImage support is still done on a per-distro basis, and it really isn't much more than setting permission and executing certain environment variables... I think.
But mayhaps this is a job for ... #FREEDESKTOP
Hello. I'm free desktop... gief money,
We craves it, WE NEEDS IT!!
But yeah, maybe xdg-open should handle that problem. Then distros wouldn't need to do anything to get first rate AppImage support by removing those annoyances.
One can only hope.
@hopland Agreed! :D
@forteller holy smeg the #freedeaktop #gitlab server is slow as snails crawling through molasses. Hoo-boy!