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There’s an appimaged daemon you can install that will manage them, and it watches a bunch of folders to integrate appimages with xdg and whatever window manager you’ve got. ~/Applications looks like an easy pick, or ~/.local/bin.
Appimages you decide to keep you can just move there!
Whats wrong with snaps? My only “issue” with appimages is i tend to leave them in my downloads folder and lose them
There’s an appimaged daemon you can install that will manage them, and it watches a bunch of folders to integrate appimages with xdg and whatever window manager you’ve got.
~/Applicationslooks like an easy pick, or~/.local/bin.Appimages you decide to keep you can just move there!
Why do you keep appimages? I don’t do that and now I’m wondering if I do something wrong. But I try to install from repos as much as possible.
I’ve used one or two tools that only distribute for my system as an appimage or as source code.
I can’t always be bothered to set up a compilation environment or deal with removing dependencies.
I only use one or two regularly, but it’s nice to have them integrated!
I prefer from the distro’s repos, then source, then flatpack, then appimage. Sometimes you have to take what you can get!
The appImage is the program. If you don’t keep it, you don’t have the program.
The snap store is a shit show of security issues.
Forced migration to snaps.
Performance issues.
Proprietary back end.
Slow to install
Slow to start
Eat up RAM
Eat up disk space
They screw up access to devices.
They automatically update themselves without user confirmation.
Fuck snaps. Fuck Canonical.
My issues with snaps are:
I didn’t realize, damn.
Gearlevel is a good app to tidy up the Appimage apss.
snaps are essentially ubuntu-only
I have an ~/app directory for appimages
Ty for both