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Not that it's bad. For me, it's actually very useful, I just find it mildly amusing that an app for managing AppImages is packaged as a Flatpak, despite the two formats being widely known as competitors*.

* Okay, most people (including me) would say that the two formats are for different use cases and aren't directly competitors, but for the eyes of a lot of AppImage purists and Flatpak critics, they are.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Speaking of that app, I have been using it for some of my programs that are only available as an AppImage for sometime now and I can confirm it works really great.

Flathub link in case anybody's interested

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OK well I'm not sure where the AppImage "purists" and Flatpak "critics" are but I've not really encountered them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tip: take a look at r/Linux and the Phoronix forums 😉

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like and monetarily support Phoronix the news site, but the forums have some of the worst Linux users. Lots of people upset about the silliest things and confidently spouting incorrect nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lucky you, those idiots are fucking everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How is it compared to AppImageLauncher? That's what I've been using for a few things that only ship AppImage.