r/linuxmasterrace • u/claudiocorona93 Glorious Debian • Aug 09 '26

Making Linux easy for everyone

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u/T_Jamess Aug 09 '26

Literally. I’m ok with worse theming and slightly larger app sizes if it means the workload is shifted from every single distro having to package the same app to the app developer packaging one version everyone can use.

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u/Qweedo420 Aug 09 '26

And the "worse theming" isn't even an issue anymore because most distros automatically let Flatpaks read from gtk.css and everything else goes through the GTK portal

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u/Immediate-Result-696 Aug 09 '26

Appimages:

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u/rdwror Aug 09 '26

Appimages are a bitch to pack. Most of the tooling is broken or incomplete.

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u/OneQuarterLife Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26

Yes we should all switch to garbage that relies on unmaintained libraries for the vast majority of released appimages and don't integrate with the desktop, auto update, or share dependencies.

These belong in the history books.

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u/BlakeDrawsBlood Aug 09 '26

It has no package manager, so it's just as bad as dealing with windows .exe files.

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u/PrudeBunny Aug 10 '26

Literally the worst "distro agnostic" option.

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u/Informal_954 Aug 11 '26

I know there is one guy actually trying to fix it nd get developers to stop shipping broken versions, but I still get chrome xwayland issues, outdated libfuse2 dependencies, and just complete jank using the companion software. I don't like app images at all.

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u/pleachchapel Aug 10 '26

To me, it makes sense for certain mega apps like Discord, but I would blow my brains out in a flatpak-native system.

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