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appimage portablility across machines (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by neatobuilds@lemmy.today to c/linux@programming.dev
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Hi everyone, I have been getting back into photography lately and switched to using linux full time about a year ago.

I ended up deciding to use digikam as my photo library management tool and then edit in darktable. both applications I decided to use the appimage for easier use and to have the necessary dependencies to get things like opencl to work, (I had a hard time getting it to work with the .deb)

now I also use multiple machines and recently learned that you can create .home and .config folders for each appimage to have all their settings etc save there, and it seems that this would make it pretty portable.

would it be a bad idea to for example keep the appimages and their folders in a synchronized folder like with nextcloud to use the same* appimage across machines. I never have the same machine on at a time but it would be nice to have all the settings sync'd but im not sure it would then break something since two machines use nvidia gpus and the other uses an amd gpu

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[โ€“] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know i have taken a firefox and launched it on another host and it seemed to have kept the settings I changed on the first machine. Im still way early in testing.

[โ€“] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

it probably depends on the software and what it is set to use, digikam stores stuff it downloads for facial recognition and stuff in a home folder so now that I create the digikam.appimage.home folder it uses that which is nice