[dns_snek]

AppImages are just a portable packaging format while Flatpaks and Snaps also offer sandboxing, and Flatpak is more distro-independent than Snap which is developed by Canonical. Ubuntu used to be extremely pushy about Snap which turned me off and now Flatpak just seems a lot more popular.

[torginus]

Ubuntu is still pushing snap - they still kept the practice of silently replacing apt packages with snaps, I think the default Firefox is still a snap, and so is node.

[eichin]

I'd love to see snap go the way of upstart...

[torginus]

The Ubuntu defaultism still puzzles me to this day... Canonical has been shown to subject users to its horrible science experiments pushing broken software on its users sometimes even persisting for half a decade or more (see pulseaudio, it was shipped in ubuntu for literal years, and it never worked...). Snap is their latest science experiment.

Though Im not sure what should be the default, as I can think of disadvantages to several alternatives.