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by whoisthemachine 894 days ago
Ideally a new instance of the application is installed for each user. This also provides better isolation if one user upgrades/removes/breaks their application instance. I, for one, have really come around to the AppImage model [0] in the last couple of years.

[0] https://appimage.org/

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I don't like the solution being to just make containers out of everything. That introduces its own problems and lets developers be lazy in other ways.