Flatpack, appimage, snaps..
Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
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Appimage for me ticks all the boxes for cross distro package as its very portable, simple to run, what are devs trying to do when creating snaps and flatpack?
I had no idea about Appimage's stance on Wayland. That's very unfortunate.
E: Here's what I've come across so far: https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/appimage-dev-rejects-wayland-support/
It is very unfortunate. It's fine to point out problems, but then when you become part of the problem, that's not amazing.
He's had the same meltdown with fuse2 being deprecated in favor of fuse3 which, guess what, also broke AppImage and we had a huge rant for that too.
Flatpak has a better chance of being forward compatible for the foreseeable future. Linux generally isn't a very ABI/API compatible platform because for the most part you're expected to be able to patch and recompile whatever you might want.
Lol that reads like a squabble between 12yr olds. "He said there's tearing in Intel but my friend told me that's not true."
AppImages are a good idea, but its dev is a top tier moron.