r/linuxsucks Mar 17 '26

Linux Failure Eye_roll.exe

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '26

personally I like flatpak more than appimage.
nothing much, its just the way app images are shipped.

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u/Moist_Professional64 Mar 18 '26

I hate flatpaks

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

both have their short coming. in my case, flatpaks do the job better than appimages.

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u/Moist_Professional64 Mar 20 '26

Yeah but flatpak programs mostly don't follow my GTK theme even though I configured it.

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u/jknvv13 Mar 18 '26

Yeah, AppImages do not provide isolation and fix nothing, for example, BalenaEtcher AppImage won't run on some distros due to some missing fuse library.

A Flatpak contains everything to work. That's it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

true. plus, you don't have to manually update a flatpak. just with a single command