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minus-squaresleepyTonia@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoNow I’m just hoping AppImage will follow in Snap’s footsteps.
minus-squarefine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoWDYM? I thought canonical was kinda standing their ground with snaps.
minus-squarePlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoAppimage is better for cli apps. Different purposes. Neovim appimage is very useful
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoAppimage is broken in many ways. Use a container
minus-squarePlexSheep@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoI’ve never had problems with appimage, and for me, containers are for my servers. I don’t want stateless, sandboxed applications for my workstations. In what ways is it broken?
minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoContainers don’t need to be stateless. I use Distrobox to create environments that I run my software in. Podman is the best for Distrobox but it can use the docker backend as well.
Now I’m just hoping AppImage will follow in Snap’s footsteps.
WDYM? I thought canonical was kinda standing their ground with snaps.
Appimage is better for cli apps. Different purposes. Neovim appimage is very useful
Appimage is broken in many ways. Use a container
I’ve never had problems with appimage, and for me, containers are for my servers. I don’t want stateless, sandboxed applications for my workstations.
In what ways is it broken?
Containers don’t need to be stateless. I use Distrobox to create environments that I run my software in. Podman is the best for Distrobox but it can use the docker backend as well.