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    I hate people who only release their App on flatpak (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    For context: I habe a PC with an 8gb SSD and I somehow need to get an app on there that only has a flatpak release

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    [–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    AppImage isn’t a good comparison for a lot of different reasons

    Alright what does flatpak offer in this case?

    • Has performance issues 1

    • The thing is not XDG Base dir compliant 1 2

    • Has security issues even 1 2 3 and not to mention the whole bunch of flatpaks that use EOL runtimes which are even worse, not only for security, but also because that single flatpak ends up pulling an entire runtime for itself which makes even more bloated.

    • And is insanely bloated as you saw already.

    I think enough people have summarised that on the internet by now.

    Such as? but I likely know already what is going to be said, hopefully is none of the following:

    • "Depends on libfuse2" (not true since 2022 with the static appimage runtime, this also allows making appimages that work on musl systems, which several like ghostty, goverlay, Steam, gimp, cromite, citron already do)

    • "You need to build on an old distro and it is hard", once again not true anymore since you can now bundle the glibc as well (and it is needed for appimages to work on musl systems).

    • "No wayland", this is only true if you use linuxdeploy-qt to make the AppImage, the project has been abandoned already for several years and the only project I know that still uses it is qbittorrent-enhanced.

    EDIT: And also hopefully you are aware that a lot of flatpaks are literary an AppImage shipped in a flatpak runtime, like:

    So yeah AppImage isn't ideal, lets ship it in a container anyway 😁