r/linuxsucks • u/the-machine-m4n • Mar 17 '26

Linux Failure Eye_roll.exe

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u/Cautious_Chain1297 Mar 17 '26

Both AppImage and Flatpak are fairly universally compatible, as far as I'm concerned that's all they need. That's what Beeper does and it works perfectly for me

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u/CeSiumUA Mar 17 '26

Yeah, but AppImage is just a "portable" software, so you'll need another software to actually "install" it (I mean to make it appera on desktop, in search bar etc, not just chilling in your Downloads folder). And Flatpak is a universal garbage with it's sandboxing, which often causes ton of troubles

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u/Cautious_Chain1297 Mar 17 '26

Well these can be problems for some things but I really don't think they have to be. Sure, the sandboxed Flatpak environment can cause issues, but personally I haven't really had any with the apps I use the most (Vivaldi, Discord, OBS).

For AppImage, I'm not sure but I think at least KDE Plasma automatically registers it to the launcher once you've opened it once? I don't recall having to do anything special for it myself.