How many of /g/-anons are using appimages on their Linux OS?

the project is dead

>>60261608

>t. canonical disinfo shill

It's pretty much alive:
http://appimage.org/

>>60261375
Flatpak is technically superior, although its not yet usable

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>>60261375
I wish we could just all use rpm.

>>60261375
>Linux OS
No such thing.

Also, how is this better than docker?

>>60261375
GuixSD and Nix pose the most efficient and clean methods to maintain packages.

Containerization is using a hammer to solve a problem that requires a wrench. It's inefficient but perhaps the best option in many ways regardless.

I feel like appimage suffers much of the same problems as the containerization meme in that it bundles everything required for each package which means that it's duplicating shared libraries in many cases and therefore inefficient. The goal is nice but it sounds very much like bloat.

>>60261375
>overcomplicating things because my thing is better than yours

No wonder Linux will never reach mainstream use.

I've seen a few projects like this and I just don't understand the need for them, there doesn't seem to be anything special about them compared to a standard tar with the libs included or a static binary.

>>60262817
Have fun looking up the dependencies the dev forgot to document.

>>60262886
>I could make a pull request documenting the build process that I manually figured out
>or I could make a whole new package ecosystem and continue the cycle of people not compiling it themselves
What we really need is to promote and enforce shit like pkg-src, ports, portage, abs, etc. where you can still compile by source but retain dependency management automatically.

>>60262473
>Flatpak
No thanks, I don't centralised garbage named after shitty Ikea buzzwords

Appimage rocks

>>60261375
Can non-free software be distributed as appimages or is that a legal minefield?

>>60263151
>No dependencies resolver
>Important security library is compiled
>Need to update the whole appimage for every library update
>Literally maintained by one single pajeet which can only afford free file hosting
I hope your real life isn't that miserable, anon.