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    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 54 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    That's cool and all but it would be even cooler if you could just install and keep it updated through your package manager

    [–] klu9@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)
    [–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That's cool.

    It would still be even cooler if the app makers just packaged them for distros. Or even just Flatpak.

    But that's a cool project I'll keep it in mind for my next go with an immutable distro

    [–] Samueru_sama@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Or even just Flatpak.

    AM was started because flatpak sucks.

    • With flatpak devs can't agree to use a common runtime, so the user ends up with a bunch of different runtimes and even EOL versions of the same runtime, making the storage usage 5x more than the appimage equivalent and this is much worse if you use nvidia which flatpak will download the entire nvidia driver again.

    • flatpak could not bother to fix the hardcoded ~/.var directory, something that AM fixes by simply bind mounting the existing application config/data files to their respective places when sandboxing which yes it is able to sandbox appimages with aisap (bubblewrap).

    • flatpak threw the mess of handling conflicting applications to the user, so you have to type nonsense like flatpak run io.github.ungoogled_software.ungoogled_chromium, AM just puts the app to PATH like everyone else does, even snap doesn't have this issue.

    [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

    Having experienced Flatpak bloat and seeing your posts here, I might just have been converted. The Flatpak integration on my distro is neat though. But I already use Aptitude for most of my package management needs, so I guess adding AM to my toolbox doesn't seem too bad.

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