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[โ€“] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you prefer them to flatpaks? Genuinely curious. I've only used appimages once or twice.

[โ€“] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 1 points 51 minutes ago

They're portable and don't require that I install anything. If I'm looking for an odd tool, it's usually the easiest way to download and test something out. It's just nice to have a standalone executable.

Flatpaks are fine, I really have no problem with them in theory but I spend twice as long configuring them as I do with a native program, and I have to trust that the maintainer is affiliated with the project, which isn't always the case.