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Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?

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[–] Carter@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Flatpaks are a lot easier than appimages though I still default to my distros native packages if available.

[–] risencode@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I use them all with no issues.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Just download .exes for windows and run them with WINE. Don’t have a single snap or flatpack application. If it doesn’t run then u didn’t need it in the first place 👉😎👉

Edit: someone DMed me and took this comment seriously. Bless ur heart

[–] Squid@leminal.space 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You should quit in "satire"

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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Here is a revolutionising idea. Hear me out.

Use anything you want, because all of them are safe and speedy.

Flatpaks allow packaging together all dependencies with specific versions with the package. Snaps take it to the next level by allowing to run system integrated sandboxed programs, because Flatpaks cannot have system integration. Appimages are simply the equivalent of portable USB software on Windows.

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