• gworl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Why can’t they do that already? Just choose whichever one you want it’s trivial for me to run whichever as a user

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          Whats wrong with snaps? My only “issue” with appimages is i tend to leave them in my downloads folder and lose them

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            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!

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            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.

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            My issues with snaps are:

            • The server software is closed source and centralized
            • They create many block devices that can slow down booting the PC.
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        Recently I wanted to uninstall $thing. Couldn’t via the package manager. I had forgotten that it wasn’t a native package. So what was it? *scratches head* Flatpak, snap or Appimage? Aw damn, it’s an AppImage. Now where did I put the binary? *scratches head*.

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            How is that my problem

            Well let’s break it down…

            You thought:

            Yeah, it’s called .deb

            Was an acceptable response to:

            Because it’s nice for devs to have a single package type to build per OS


            Your problem was your stupidity.

            But now your problem is everyone knowing about it.