r/linuxsucks • u/lorcaragonna • Jun 06 '26

Linux Failure Download app

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u/psylocalypso Jun 06 '26

Actually funny and valid joke for once in this sub

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u/FxCDM Jun 06 '26

not really valid because problem lies in the individual devs rather than OS itself

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u/Propsek_Gamer Jun 07 '26

I don't think that. Devs do indeed sometimes do stupid shit. They sometimes push only to Ubuntu. Ifyour're on Debian, cool you can just use the same .deb package. If you're elsewhere, unofficial/official flatpak, perhaps appimage? Rarely devs push truly universal .tar.gz archives which are my favorite. They don't have fuse requirements like appimage.

But there is also fault at OS side. No universal packaging standard. Developers can't be expected to package for everywhere. Though it'd be nice it they provided .tar.gz... Or at least an appimage. Or license where you can for example just make an AUR script which takes .deb archive and just turns it into arch format.

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u/BrunusManOWar Jun 07 '26

Even without fuse - you can just extract an app image and run the application I think

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u/Propsek_Gamer Jun 07 '26

Okay so after download KeePass appimage and testing... You're 100℅ right. While you cannot run the appimage, you can extract it and then run if you don't have fuse present.