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by sjellis 2586 days ago
Yeah, AppImages are not really comparable to snap and Flatpak, which both address this issue by managing shared sets of libraries as well as applications. Flatpak calls these sets of libraries "runtimes", and snap calls them "base snaps". The metadata for each application declares one runtime or base snap that it uses.

This ability to easily provide different userlands to different applications is one of the critical advantages of these new application formats.