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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What’s off? It’s an app for managing appimages that is hosted on flathub. Just because it is a flatpak does not mean it can’t manage appimages

edit: a word

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This is not really a competition. Options are good.

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What’s off? That looks like it might be useful.

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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

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

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Lucky you, those idiots are fucking everywhere!

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

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

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I bet the dev gets a lot of angry comments over that, a absolute hero!

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