question about app images

https://lemmy.world/post/1494757

question about app images - Lemmy.world

Flat snap and app images. You can’t hang out in linux land for long with out hearing about them. Now I get why Snap aren’t love by some, they are not fully open souse. But why so little love for app images?

For AppImages specifically, the guy that made the tech has had a lot of controversial arguments and opinions and a general unwillingness to accept change. Things like intentionally making it so Wayland doesn’t work because he dislikes Wayland. Also dropped a PR for AppImages for things like OBS but then refused to take responsibility for making sure all the features works and maintaining it, and then throwing a fuss when the OBS maintainers ultimately decided to not move forward with it due to lack of support commitment. Dude wanted to throw all the burden on the OBS team and then proceeded of accusing them to be paid by RedHat to favor Flatpaks. Also got mad that distros stopped shipping some outdated/unmaintained libraries AppImages relies on and refuses to upgrade it. Just massive ego problems overall around his pet project that it AppImages.

github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/pull/2868

CI: Build AppImage by azubieta · Pull Request #2868 · obsproject/obs-studio

Description Generate AppImage using appimage-builder Motivation and Context A revival of #1926 How Has This Been Tested? Downloaded and ran AppImage. Types of changes New feature (non-br...

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It was clear to me from the start that appimages were nothing more than propaganda from flatpak reactionaries, it was bound to get nowhere.