| The Linux community is self-selected and highly opinionated on everything. Concerning AppImages: I have no interest at all in them and although Flatpak still has its share of problems, basically all important communities adopted it (but Ubuntu). Flatpak integrates in your system, has sandboxes, has automatic updates, shares dependencies etc. Is Flatpak perfect or running w/o problems? Certainly not. But IMHO AppImages add nothing over Flatpak, but lack the unified infrastructure and integration into packet managers etc. We all would benefit from agreeing on one standard, and by now it looks like Flatpak is that one standard. So, I don't want to download random AppImages from the internet, I want a certified Flatpak which integrates with my system. (Being a member of the Linux community for longer than most people using Linux are alive by now, of course and invetible, once Flatpak is working and established, it will be replaced by some broken other solution. :-P) |